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EXPORTING

Great potential exists for businesses in the United States to become more active in exporting. Only 15% of U. S. exporters account for 85% of the value of U. S. manufactured exports. One-half of all exporters sell in only one foreign market. 20% of exporters (3% of U.S. companies) export to more than five foreign markets.
Competing effectively abroad allows companies to keep the edge they need at home. However, due to the real costs and risks associated with exporting, it is up to each company to weigh the necessary commitment against the potential benefits. Below you will find suggestions and names of agencies which can assist you.
Recommendations for successful exporting:
1. Select overseas distributors carefully.
2. Treat international distributors on an equal basis with their domestic counterparts.
3. Continue to pursue export business even when the U.S. market is healthy.

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Great potential exists for businesses in the United States to become more active in exporting. Only 15% of U. S. exporters account for 85% of the value of U. S. manufactured exports. One-half of all exporters sell in only one foreign market. 20% of exporters (3% of U.S. companies) export to more than five foreign markets.
Competing effectively abroad allows companies to keep the edge they need at home. However, due to the real costs and risks associated with exporting, it is up to each company to weigh the necessary commitment against the potential benefits. Below you will find suggestions and names of agencies which can assist you.
Recommendations for successful exporting:
1. Select overseas distributors carefully.
2. Treat international distributors on an equal basis with their domestic counterparts.
3. Continue to pursue export business even when the U.S. market is healthy.

[单项选择] Genetic engineering holds great potential payoffs for farmers and consumers by making crops resistant to pests, diseases, and even chemicals used to kill surrounding weeds. But new research raises concerns that altering crops to withstand such threats may pose new risks from none other than the weeds themselves. This is due to the weeds ability to acquire genes from the neighboring agricultural crops. Researchers found that when a weed cross-breeds with a farm-cultivated relative and thus acquires new genetic traits possibly including artificial genes engineered to make the crop hardier the hybrid weed can pass along those traits to future generations. "The result may be very hardy, hard-to-kill weeds," said Allison Snow, a plant ecologist at Ohio State University in Columbus who conducted the experiments over the past six years along with two colleagues. They presented their results last week at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America in Madison, Wisconsin.
A. the results of recent research
B. dangers inherent in the nature of weeds
C. risks of altering crops’’ genetic make-ups
D. threats posed by chemicals used to kill weeds

[单项选择]Attacking an increasingly popular Internet business practice, a consumer watchdog group Monday filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, asserting that many online search engines are concealing the impact special fees have on search results by Internet users. Commercial Alert, a 3-year-old group founded by consumer activist Ralph Nader, asked the FTC to investigate whether eight of the Web’s largest search engines are violating federal laws against deceptive advertising.
The group said that the search engines are abandoning objective formulas to determine the order of their listed results and selling the top spots to the highest bidders without making adequate disclosures to Web surfers. The complaint touches a hot-button issue affecting tens of millions of people who submit search queries each day. With more than 2 billion pages and more than 14 billion hyperlinks on the Web, search requests rank as the second most popular online activity after E-mail.
The eight s
A. Sending pages of information
B. Sending E-mail
C. Surfing the net
D. Selling the top spot