These products are then designated for export, and only in rare cases can they be sold domestically.
There it would remain, sometimes for weeks, until a product designated for export was ready for packing.
In Ghana, for example, the Brazilian company Constran is building an ethanol plant, designated for export to Sweden, partly to get round European tariffs on Brazilian ethanol imports.
Asimco, the other auto parts manufacturer in Bain's portfolio, also has factories in Jiangsu Province and three other regions designated as export bases.
Now Asimco manufactures the same components in China on government-donated land in a coastal region that China has designated an export base, where companies are eligible for the sort of subsidies Mr. Romney says create an unfair trade imbalance.
Overestimation may be caused by the fact that producers do not generally apply all allowable pesticides at once or in the maximum allowed quantities, and that they may be particularly inclined to follow U.S. regulations in products designated for export.
The indictment charges Mr. Marzook, his wife, the five Elashi brothers and their company, InfoCom, with conspiracy, money laundering, dealing in the property of a designated terrorist, illegal export and making false statements.
The corporate representatives, said Mr. Smart, a former chief executive of the Continental Can Company, will go as a "Presidential delegation," the first time in recent memory that any American business group has been so designated in an export promotion.
But terrified of underperforming, regional commanders still sent their designated contribution to be exported.
