In today’s world virtually all of the U.S. defense trading partners (countries) demand an “offset” in exchange for giving the U.S. company a sale. Many times it comes in the form of technology transfer.

Over a 14-year period there were 8,500 offset transactions by U.S. companies valued at $42 billion. For a closer look at what’s taking place here is an article on the subject:
OFFSETS

BarterNews.com has an extensive countertrade & offsets section:
CT

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TUE

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