For the last 20 years the UK has exported oil, gas, 'financial services' (read fraud) and arms.
The office has only seven full-time licensing officers to review 49,000 new applications a year by companies to export arms.
It was only in the subsequent period, from 1977 through 1988, that the three firms began to export arms on a large scale.
Brazil exported arms to at least forty-two countries, in all regions of the world.
The event's prime mission has always been to showcase Pakistan's ability to export arms to foreign nations.
Egypt is exporting arms to Iraq at the rate of a billion dollars a year.
They were increasingly allowed to export arms, however.
The Serbs' weapons are so abundant, the agency said, that they are exporting arms to raise cash.
The French temptations to export arms have been mentioned.
A common policy on the arms industry would be liable to increase pressures to export arms even to countries which use them against their own people.