v3n31 - Statistical Background

Government Support for Trade in Military and Enviromental Technologies (in millions of dollars)
Military Technologies		Environmental Technologies
OPERATIONS
Defense Security Assistance agency Office of Strategic Industries Air Shows	109.0 2.3 26.5	Office of Environmental TechnologiesExports U.S. Foreign & Commercial Service Department of Energy Environmental Protection Agency	2.0 2.0 13.4 11.0
FINANCE
FMF ESF (AID) Loan Defaults No Recoupment Export-Import Bank	3199.2 2114.1 1000.0 500.0 3.9*	Agency for International Development Export-Import Bank Trade and Development Agency OPIC (Global Environmental Fund)	420.0 148.5 6.2 2.0*
Totals	$6955.0		$605.1

* "Subsidy total for transactions having some potential military implications for FY 1995," calculation as of 9/08/97, as reported by ExIm Bank Vice President for Engineering and Environment.
** "Environmentally beneficial transactions FY 95."
*** According to the president of OPIC's Global Environment Fund, this figure, representing 5% of the program's appropriation, is a generous estimate of its cost, since it's reserve (to cover defaults) is within the cushion of its profits in hand.

Source: A Tale of Two Markets: Trade in Arms and Environmental Technologies, Miriam Pemberton and Michael Renner (National Commission for Economic Conversion and Disarmament & Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, DC: 1998).