The F.D.A. inspects foreign shipments of food, drugs, cosmetics, medical devices, animal drugs and some electronic devices.
In August, China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology submitted a report on its rare-earth industry that includes proposals for further restrictions on exports and an outright ban on foreign shipments of a few key rare-earth metals.
And, it said, Mr. Deutsch "fashioned a scheme" to allow a felon, Frank Cardaci, who had been convicted of federal charges of illegal domestic sales of goods intended for foreign shipment, to hide his ownership of a waterfront warehouse by placing it in his wife's name.
"Some of these folks were a manager down at Eckerd's and decided they could make a little more money selling exotic animals," said Mr. Stinebaugh, one of nine federal inspectors in Miami supervising up to 70 foreign shipments a day, some with thousands of animals.
Analysts said Amazon.com would not be affected by the change; international book shipments represent a small fraction of its business, and because, like other high-volume businesses, it can qualify for discounts on foreign shipments.
The reshipment of an interstate or foreign shipment does not necessarily establish a continuity of movement or prevent the shipment to a point within the same state from having an independent or intrastate character, even though it be in the same cars.
Radical Islam was virtually unknown in Bosnia until the bloody ethnic wars of the 1990s, when a US-backed operation enabled foreign fighters and shipments of arms to pour into the country from Turkey, Iran, and Saudi Arabia.
Shipments of foreign cars declined $906 million, to $16.8 billion.
Without foreign aid, including emergency shipments of American wheat, many might have starved.
The secretive and xenophobic junta — still fearing a seaborne invasion by Western powers — now readily accepts air shipments of foreign aid, even from the West.
But the American agricultural system moves grain so fast that it tolerates 2 to 7percentt foreign matter in bulk shipments of corn.
