51.  American shipping companies have long complained that Japan ports and labor unions restrict their access to business through discriminatory licensing, scheduling and labor-contracting practices.

52.  Although buying these systems in Canada is technically not illegal, it is illegal for American companies to broadcast their signals in Canada.

53.  American aerospace companies are pushing the Bush administration to allow China to launch American-made satellites or satellites containing American parts.

54.  American companies and their Mexican partners protested.

55.  American companies are a big part of the equation.

56.  American companies are allowed to sell food, medicine and other humanitarian goods to Iraq under the so-called oil-for-food program overseen by the United Nations.

57.  American companies are already barred from doing business in Sudan under U.S. sanctions imposed on Khartoum.

58.  American companies are already barred from those investments.

59.  American companies are driven mainly by fear that they will lose customers to competitors if they raise prices too much.

60.  American companies are much more reluctant to fork out, apart from the occasional burst of enthusiasm.