A Brown engineering report is recalled as questioning why American customers sought licences for older machinery. Its suggested explanation was that they lacked the capacity to manufacture more modern units. That was the supplier's interpretation of the request, rather than proof of the customers' technical limitations. The example supplies no date or specific American programme.
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What an export-machinery report can and cannot establish
A supplier's explanation for an older-machinery licence request remains an interpretation of the customer's capabilities.