Sanctioning Apartheid - KORA

Implementation of the Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986
don, or 272% of all South African imports. In value this was
the mast important of all items imported by South Afrim. Lipton,
sup note 1& at 32 (numbem based on data from Comm'r for
Customs & Excise; South African Reserve Bank; Mind Bureau).
92 In 1985, the total of South African imports of machinery and
hmqmrt quipment from OECD counMe~ was QjfP4 dllion.
Imports fFom the US. totalled $573 qmsding 14.7% of
total alth African imports of machinery h m the OECD. This
mah the U.S. the fwrth largest supplier of machtuery to South
Africla West Germany comes first with W%, Japan; second with
17.8%, and U.K. third with 15.94 Id. at 34-35. (nudm bad on
OErn data).
93. hkmiew with Anthony H. BIum, "Managing Against Apwhid,"
I;Iarwtd Business Review, Nov.-Dec, 1987, at 49. In 19E, US.
exports of machinery to South Africa (a significant component of
any capital gods trade) amounted to about haIf a billion dollam
with another thmequarters of a billion dollars consisting pimady
of manufa- articles and chemicals. United States exports
made up approximately 10 percent of Swth African imports for
that year. See John E. End, 'Trade Credits EEonomic Ressurr
Points on Sauth Africa" (Paper presented at the South Africa and
Sanctions ConferenceI H o d Universiv, Oct. Oc31,1987).
94. Seventy percent of all South African imports came from OECD
cwnfries, primarily Japan, Germany, Italyt the United Kingdom
and France. Lid, sup.
95. SeegoremIly Henldn, "Foreign Affairs and the Constitution," Furer'gn
4ffrrits, Winter 1987/88, at 284.
96. 22 US-C 2- (Supp. 1 1983). See also Export-Inport Bank Act
Amedments of 1986,12 U.S.C. 5 635(b)(2) (Supp. N 1986).
97. 22 US.C $2&4j (1982). See also, the ''HiWooper Amendment"
of the Foreign Assistance Ad, 22 U3.C. 5 2371 (1982).
98. From February 17-20, the United Nations Securiky Cwndl met on
the topic of the hhml situation in South Africa. A resolution that
would have im- on South Africa as mandatory the aame
sanctbm imposd by the Act was vetoed by the United States and
Britain U-N. Doc. 5/18705 (1987). On April 9,19W, the United