Though it's unlikely the smallest producers will be able to qualify for export, many of the better-known types, such as salame di Felino, made in a small town in the Parma area, will.
Except for Iran's submission for one species, no nation provided enough material to qualify for exports, he said.
Not all countries qualify for exporting FBS because of certain diseases in their cattle populations, and the related import restrictions imposed by importing countries.
But they qualified for agricultural export refunds, government rebates to cover the difference between the European price of a commodity and its lower world market price.
Instead of just repealing what amounted to a $50 billion subsidy for manufacturers here -- and using the money to, say, reduce the deficit -- Congress has replaced it with $77 billion in new tax breaks, much of it for companies that never qualified for the export subsidy.
The transactions created the illusion that millions of dollars' worth of legitimate metal products qualified for the export incentives, which governments often pay to manufacturers to encourage them to lower their prices and make their products more desirable abroad, said Mr. Hillman.
To qualify for an export licence, garment factories must register with the International Labour Organisation's Better Factories Cambodia (BFC) monitoring programme.
The next President may liberalize travel to Cuba or allow another industry or two to qualify for legal export, as food companies like Archer Daniels Midland have done since 2003.
Because Russia, and not Croatia, was listed as the intended destination, the shipments customs officials examined qualified for valuable special payments known as export rebates from the European Union's farm subsidy program.
ban on export restrictions, saying that it qualified for an exception to the ban for environmental protection and conservation of natural resources.
