1.   Among other items, the treaty requires that before a country issues an export license, the importing country has to formally approve the movement.

2.   And they resented what many considered the preferential treatment afforded him in the granting of art export licenses.

3.   Anything larger would still require an export license.

4.   Because sales could be made without export licenses, the government and its intelligence agencies no longer had a record of many deals that involved dual-use equipment.

5.   A buyer has not obtained the necessary export licenses or insists that the licenses are not required or will not be a problem.

6.   A congressional source earlier said Boeing had broken the terms of its export license by discussing technical information without a State Department representative present.

7.   A strike at Norilsk would come at a time when shipments from Russia already are being delayed by a lack of government-approved export licenses.

8.   A six-month halt on export licenses in Russia has led to a supply shortage of both metals that analysts say may not be relieved for weeks.

9.   A walk-out would come at a time when Russian export shipments are already delayed by a lack of export licenses.

10.   Bureaucratic disputes over control of export licenses blocked Russian shipments of platinum and palladium for the first seven months of the year.