The Landfill Tax, introduced in 1996, often makes it cheaper to export waste than dump it in landfill.
During the 1930s, however, it ground to a halt after a technique developed by Kokichi Mikimoto in Japan to culture pearls made it much cheaper to export high quality pearls during the Great Depression.
The Club's concerns about this and similar pipelines, however, go beyond the immediate habitat destruction: by making it cheaper to export fracked gas from the Marcellus region, the pipelines would encourage fracking and increase GHG emissions.
One way Japan acquired its technological prowess was by letting its companies exploit a captive domestic market of gadget-crazy consumers and then rapidly develop better and cheaper models to export.
Xiaomi: Aiming to be the Apple - and Google - of China China's Xiaomi quadruples smartphone shipments in a year Xiaomi to export cheap smartphones to emerging markets.
For Thailand, the project would be a cheap and convenient way to export its dirty refineries across the border.
China rising: Xiaomi becomes world's third biggest smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi: Aiming to be the Apple - and Google - of China China's Xiaomi quadruples smartphone shipments in a year Xiaomi to export cheap smartphones to emerging markets.
Upon achieving independence, few former colonies had modern industrial economies or trained workforces that could compete in the global marketplace, so they continued to export cheap raw materials to former colonial powers.
The report accused oil companies of "regulatory arbitrage", allowing traders and companies to exploit weak standards to export cheap, dirty fuels in a process that Public Eye said was maximising profits at the expense of African's health.
Soon some of the nations of Eastern Europe may become magnets for immigration -- legal and illegal -- in a marked shift for societies closed off for 40 years under Communism and, for nearly a century before, much more likely to export cheap labor than to let it in.
