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	Arms industry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The arms industry can thus pose problems related to its lack of transparency, as both legal and illegal contracts are often made in secret.
		The Control Arms Campaign, founded by Amnesty International, Oxfam, and the International Network on Small Arms, estimates that there are over 600 million items of small arms in circulation, and that over 1135 companies based in more than 98 different countries are manufacturing small arms as well as their various components and ammunition.
		Essentially, they view the arms industry as a means of profiting from war and death when failure to supply arms could lead to an early disengagement.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arms_industry (806 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Arms industry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The European Union arms embargo on China is an embargo which was imposed by the European Union (EU) member states on the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) in response to its suppression of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
		Ethically, the arms trade is problematic for many as they see supplying the weapons for a conflict as morally akin to becoming involved oneself, but at less risk to one's own nation or company.
		Essentially, they see the arms industry as means of profiting from war and death when failure to supply arms could lead to an early disengagement.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Arms-industry (2695 words)

	- Arms Industry Transparency
		It is therefore essential that the activities of the industry are subject to measures of regulation and control by governments and ultimately, to rules of public accountability.
		As the basis for a review of their strategic and policy options regarding the arms industry, the governments of Australia, Italy and South Africa commissioned one-off surveys of the state of their domestic arms industries in the 1990s (4).
		Within the Canadian Defence Industry Association statistical survey a ‘defence firm is defined as any firm having annual defence revenues of $100,000 or more’(9) while the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs’ statistical survey of the domestic arms industry uses its own definition: companies with military sales of 5 per cent or more of total sales.
	www.sipri.org /contents/milap/milex/aprod/transparency.html (2946 words)

	Control Arms: The Arms Industry
		But arms dealers can still get the weapons to their clients because this system is easy to bypass – either because the licensing body does little to verify it, or because certificates are obtained through corrupt channels.
		Often, the arms end up in a different place because the destination cited in the certificate is only a transit stop or simply fake.
		A growing number of arms companies export their expertise and arms technology which allow weapons to be made under licence in other countries.
	www.controlarms.org /the_issues/loopholes.htm (509 words)

	arm twisting Prog
		The U.S. arms industry, which has sold an estimated $1.1 billion worth of weaponry to Indonesia's military since 1975, has far more influence on U.S. policy toward the Suharto regime than John Huang, the Riadys, and the Lippo Group.
		In October 1994, the arms industry successfully persuaded Congress to allow the Export-lmport Bank to provide guaranteed loans for foreign countries to purchase so-called dual-use equipment, amenable to both military and civilian uses.
		The close ties between the arms industry and the U.S. government were starkly manifest at an airshow held in Jakarta in June 1996.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Pentagon_military/ArmTwisting_Prog.html (1129 words)

	Globalization and Canada's Arms Industry
		The international arms trade is already estimated to be nearly $60 billion (Can), and many industrially advanced nations are ending years of reductions in military spending with substantial budget increases and new arms-buying programs.
		This special protection for military industries, which is explicitly stated in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the WTO's main governing document, allows the wealthy industrial countries to use military spending to subsidize corporations, promote regional development through defence contracts, and conduct weapons research and development.
		The "war on terrorism" provides the rationale for a global buildup of arms and increases in military spending, but it is the need to provide security for corporations—not the need to protect citizens from terrorism—that is driving the expansion of military power and the arms industry.
	www.perc.ca /PEN/2002-07-08/s-staples.html (995 words)

	UN Calls for New Partnership with Arms Industry
		Jayantha Dhanapala, Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs, said the arms manufacturing industry is ''a strategic sector of the global economy'' which can assist UN efforts to curtail illicit arms trafficking.
		Arms manufacturers, he said, can promote greater transparency, and curb wrongful uses of weapons that have been acquired to serve legitimate national security needs.
		As the private sector continues to play a dominating role, the global arms industry has also been undergoing a wave of mergers and acquisitions.
	www.globalpolicy.org /reform/armsindy.htm (820 words)

	Arms industry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Almost every industrialized country in the world its own arms industry to supply its military forces.
		The link between politics and the arms can result in the development of what Eisenhower described as a military-industrial complex where the armed forces commerce and become unhealthily close.
		The Arms of Krupp: The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Dynasty that Armed Germany at War
	www.freeglossary.com /Arms_industry (797 words)

	CDA Briefing Document: Arms Industry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		During the apartheid years South Africa built up a sophisticated arms industry, largely due to the fact that the arms embargo made it difficult for military hardware to be sourced overseas.
		If, by exporting arms, our country was actually managing to maintain an economically viable defence industry, it could at least be argued that the South African citizen was benefiting (albeit at the cost of the citizens of other countries).
		It will be seen, then, that the defence industry ran up costs and used up assets to the value of well over R8 billion during the period when it managed to sell R2.488 billion worth of weapons (and how much of the later figure is actual profit is unknown).
	www.sacc-ct.org.za /cdadind.html (1056 words)

	Military Propaganda for Arms Sales - Global Issues
		Various spokespeople from the military industry said that the ethical dimensions and things like corporate responsibility was not in the domain of corporations, but of the government.
		That is, the number of jobs supported by the industry is not that large, and that given the changing nature of the economy, the impact in the reduction of military spending would not adversely affect the economy and jobs.
		The eventual people who profit from this "increased security" is not the general public, but often the corporations who wish to make increasing sales, the arms dealers who earn large commissions and the governments of the powerful nations who can continue their geopolitical jostling for power, dominance and influence over poorer nations.
	www.globalissues.org /Geopolitics/ArmsTrade/ArmsPropaganda.asp (2556 words)

	US arms industry a casualty of superpower status- The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		WASHINGTON: America's arms industry is becoming a casualty of the US' sole superpower status as there is no longer any need for heavy weapons that built it up for confrontation against the Soviet behemoth.
		The industry has handed pink slips to 10 percent of its workforce since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, it said.
		Without an overhaul of the defence industry model, the United States won't be able to preserve its status as a military hyperpower, an article in The Washington Times by Stan Crock, a defence journalist says.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=155474 (304 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Arms trade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		It is estimated that yearly over 150 billion dollars ($150B) is spent on arms.
		In fiscal year 2002 a total of 70 million USD was spent on IMET, spread over 113 countries.
		The arms trade is the exchange of arms or weapons among two or more parties, except for exclusively sovereign nations.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Arms-trade (722 words)

	Uncommon Sense, A Book by Gregory Sams. Chapter 22. The Arms Industry Toilet
		The arms industry is quite often cited as a productive part of society, creating jobs, employment and exports.
		Yet from the examples that history has given us, it does not appear that a strong and successful arms industry and military establishment are signs of a healthy society that can endure and improve for future generations.
		The negative economic effect of vast expenditure on arms in any society is likely to show itself as an accelerated inner decay and shift to disorder, as money that could otherwise be used productively by society is worse than wasted.
	www.chaos-works.com /ch22.html (1157 words)

	Bundeswehr Cuts Could Hurt German Defense Industry \| Current Affairs \| Deutsche Welle \| 14.01.2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Although arms make up a very small share of Germany's total exports, he argued that the new cuts might mean Germany could miss out on the opportunity to continue selling high-tech products on international markets.
		Germany's arms industry may not have been given due warning of Struck's drastic agenda, but many companies are well-prepared nonetheless, having already introduced their own austerity measures some time ago and opted for new business strategies.
		Although the arms industry appears rather unruffled by the imminent cuts, Harff pointed out that, in Germany, the defense budget is a uniquely thorny issue.
	www.dw-world.de /dw/article/0,1564,1089010,00.html (611 words)

	portland imc - 2003.05.27 - Israel's arms industry is booming
		Israel's arms exports surged by 70 percent in 2002.
		Rotem explained that although the increase in 2002 was spectacular, it did not necessarily reflect the growth of Israel's arms industry.
		Ya know, if the arms suppliers stopped supplying even conventional weapons (guns, missiles, etc), and the UN made it illegal to supply them, the Bad Guys(TM) would first have to jump the hurdle of aquiring those illegal weapons before they even think about getting their hands of Nukes and stuff.
	portland.indymedia.org /en/2003/05/265458.shtml (775 words)

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		Among the main Third World arms producers, according to the report, Israel is the only important producer and exporter of the four major arms categories—aircraft, armored vehicles, missiles and ships.
		The success of the Israeli arms industry can be attributed to a combination of domestic and foreign factors.
		Secondly, Israel’s arms industry would not have progressed beyond the stage of producing ammunition and light arms or reconditioning surplus stocks without contributions from abroad—initially from Europe and subsequently from the United States.
	www.ameu.org /page.asp?iid=158&aid=202&pg=1 (755 words)

	A TNI and CtW Report on how the EU allows defence industry lobbying to determine policies on security, defence and arms ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The arms industry was deeply involved in the drafting of the European Convention and is also over-represented in many influential advisory committees on an EU level.
		This way, the interests of the arms industry have taken a central role in the determination of EU policy, as is shown in the report released today “The emerging EU Military-Industrial Complex – Arms industry lobbying in Brussels”, by Frank Slijper in cooperation with the Transnational Institute.
		The number of arms industry instigated lunches and conferences is indicative and alarming.
	www.antenna.nl /amokmar/persbericht_EU_Lobby_TNI.html (443 words)

	Action Atlas, U.S. Arms Sales
		But the economy was in the doldrums, and the prospect of cutting arms sales -- sugar daddy to one of the nation's largest industries -- didn't thrill either labor or corporate America.
		In a separate story, we detail the arms industry's lobbying strategies in Washington: how it keeps the export pipeline wide open, and easily outmaneuvers Congress' occasional attempt to tie arms sales to human-rights records.
		For example, two of America's biggest arms customers are Greece and Turkey, which have been threatening to go to war with each other for decades over the tiny Mediterranean island of Cyprus.
	www.motherjones.com /arms (1130 words)

	The Big Story - Features news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The arms manufacturing companies have virtually no funds to invest in product research and development, facility modernisation, or future market development and are badly in need of investment.
		The industry also lacks the required management, financial and accounting skills, because experienced managers have left, and the remaining managers are primarily engineers without financial and marketing expertise.
		Bulgaria’s arms trade law, for example, was described as not containing any text that barred weapons transfers to forces that had been responsible for gross human rights abuses and violations of international humanitarian law, nor to countries suspected of diverting or re-transferring arms to unauthorised third parties.
	www.sofiaecho.com /article/the-big-story/id_3803/catid_29 (1061 words)

	Bank - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Specific concerns are policies that permit banks to hold deposited funds for several days, to apply withdrawals before deposits or from greatest to least, which is most likely to cause the greatest overdraft, that allow backdating funds transfers and fee assessments, and that authorize electronic funds transfers despite an overdraft.
		In response to the perceived greed and socially-irresponsible all-for-the-profit attitude of banks, in the last few decades a new type of banks called ethical banks have emerged, which only make social-responsible investments (for instance, no investment in the arms industry) and are transparent in all its operations.
		If Citigroup were to be as dominant in its industry as a Home Depot, Starbucks, or Wal Mart in their respective industries, with a 30% market share -- and if its profit margins scaled up proportionally -- it would make more money than the top ten non-banking U.S. industries combined.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bank (2455 words)

	Military / Arms Industry
		A new policy was inaugurated that cranked up the volume of U.S. arms transfers to foreign regimes from less than $2 billion per year in the late 1960s to $17 billion per year by the mid-1970s.
		His book is useful primarily as aviation history, and as a window on the defense industry, with its problems of procurement and over-classification.
		But he acknowledges that "the ordinary citizen" is right to lump the arms trade in with the slave trade, and be appalled at both.
	www.namebase.org /books40.html (2187 words)

	The United States is Still #1 in Arms Sales
		U.S. arms producers may also proclaim that the relatively low global arms sales numbers in 2001 (down $12 billion from 2000) indicate a need for additional U.S. government support for their exports.
		Witness Israel, the number one arms importer in 2001 despite a declining economy and the United States, which has significantly raised its procurement budget even in the face of sharply reduced revenues and a recession.
		She is the author of several articles on U.S. arms exports and export policy, edits the project's newsletter, the Arms Sales Monitor, and served for two years as chair of the Arms Transfers Working Group, an alliance of 30-plus NGOs in DC working for more responsible arms export policy.
	www.fas.org /asmp/library/articles/tamar_commondreams_02.html (963 words)

	World Policy Institute - Arms Trade Resource Center
		The Ties that Bind: Arms Industry Influence in the Bush Administration and Beyond, a World Policy Institute Special Report, by William D. Hartung and Michelle Ciarrocca, October 28, 2004.
		U.S. Arms Transfers and Security Assistance to Israel, ATRC Fact Sheet by Frida Berrigan and William Hartung, May 6, 2002.
		This packet profiles six small arms manfacturers, providing information on what weapons systems they produce, where and by what countries the weapons are made, and where they are sold and used.
	www.worldpolicy.org /projects/arms/reports.html (1940 words)

	SIC 3484 Small Arms
		Historically, the small-arms industry has been cyclical and subject to many external pressures, including the general state of the economy, worldwide military conflicts, and public and political vagaries concerning private ownership of firearms.
		One of those new companies, the U.S. Repeating Arms Co., maker of Winchester rifles, was then sold to Belgian firearms conglomerate Fabrique Nationale Herstal, and then acquired by the French government-owned GIAT Industries.
		The small-arms industry played an important part in both the historical development of the United States and in the myths and ideals that accompanied that development.
	www.referenceforbusiness.com /industries/Fabricated-Metal/Small-Arms.html (5331 words)

	Oxfam Press release:Campaigners herald Jack Straw's 'major move' on arms controls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Arms industry support for an international Arms Trade Treaty has today been welcomed by arms campaigners.
		In their first public statement on the issue, Brinley Salzman, Export Director of the Defence Manufacturers Association, said to MPs today that his association “supported in principle the idea of an international arms trade treaty” as a way of raising international standards over the supply of arms.
		The arms industry and arms campaigners are both calling for stricter controls on weapon sales.
	www.oxfam.org.uk /press/releases/controlarms_industry151204.htm (341 words)

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