A UK company gers an arms deal, with let's say Nigeria. Now as it's an export to a foreign power it goes to the DTI, who give it an export gauarantee (which the taxpayer pays for if the other ststae decides not to pay up) and the foreign office (who will have arranged the financing for the deal with the IMF, or the suchlike, and the contractual obligations on both sides as well as the export licence). Eventually it gets shipped out and paid for, probably in some measure by the british tax-payer.
We not only encourage the purchase of the items, but pay for them too and encourage these developing nations to spend desperately needed monies on this instead of infrastructure projects. This is done to the extent that we politically and finacially lean on them in competition with our G8 partners. Get us all to agree not to sell and suddenly you free up huge amounts of resource and stop a dangerous and dirty trade.
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Date: 2005-07-03 08:58 pm (UTC)A UK company gers an arms deal, with let's say Nigeria.
Now as it's an export to a foreign power it goes to the DTI, who give it an export gauarantee (which the taxpayer pays for if the other ststae decides not to pay up) and the foreign office (who will have arranged the financing for the deal with the IMF, or the suchlike, and the contractual obligations on both sides as well as the export licence).
Eventually it gets shipped out and paid for, probably in some measure by the british tax-payer.
We not only encourage the purchase of the items, but pay for them too and encourage these developing nations to spend desperately needed monies on this instead of infrastructure projects. This is done to the extent that we politically and finacially lean on them in competition with our G8 partners. Get us all to agree not to sell and suddenly you free up huge amounts of resource and stop a dangerous and dirty trade.
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