Samoa American Samoa
CIA - The World Factbook -- Samoa
The economy of Samoa has traditionally been dependent on development aid, family remittances from overseas, agriculture, and fishing. The country is vulnerable to devastating storms. Agriculture employs two-thirds of the labor force, and furnishes 90% of exports, featuring coconut cream, coconut oil, and copra. The manufacturing sector mainly processes agricultural products. The decline of fish stocks in the area is a continuing problem. Tourism is an expanding sector, accounting for 25% of GDP; about 88,000 tourists visited the islands in 2001. One factory in the Foreign Trade Zone employs 3,000 people to make automobile electrical harnesses for an assembly plant in Australia. The Samoan Government has called for deregulation of the financial sector, encouragement of investment, and continued fiscal discipline, meantime protecting the environment. Observers point to the flexibility of the labor market as a basic strength for future economic advances. Foreign reserves are in a relativ ... [Read More]
American Samoa Observatory Tour, Around the Grounds
Turning off highway AS001, there is a 0.5 mile drive through a banana and coconut plantation on a single lane asphalt road. At 0.2 miles from the AS001 turnoff the Iuli family graves are found. The Iuli family are the Samoan land owners operating the surrounding plantation. ... '> Samoa Tour ... '> Samoa Home ... [Read More]
CIA - The World Factbook -- American Samoa
This is a traditional Polynesian economy in which more than 90% of the land is communally owned. Economic activity is strongly linked to the US, with which American Samoa conducts most of its foreign trade. Tuna fishing and tuna processing plants are the backbone of the private sector, with canned tuna the primary export. Transfers from the US Government add substantially to American Samoa's economic well-being. Attempts by the government to develop a larger and broader economy are restrained by Samoa's remote location, its limited transportation, and its devastating hurricanes. Tourism is a promising developing sector. ... [Read More]
NARA | Facilities | California
Maintains retired records from Federal agencies and courts in northern California, Hawaii, Nevada except Clark County, the Pacific Trust Territories, and American Samoa. ... [Read More]
CIA - The World Factbook -- American Samoa
This is a traditional Polynesian economy in which more than 90% of the land is communally owned. Economic activity is strongly linked to the US, with which American Samoa conducts most of its foreign trade. Tuna fishing and tuna processing plants are the backbone of the private sector, with canned tuna the primary export. Transfers from the US Government add substantially to American Samoa's economic well-being. Attempts by the government to develop a larger and broader economy are restrained by Samoa's remote location, its limited transportation, and its devastating hurricanes. Tourism is a promising developing sector. ... [Read More]
National Park of American Samoa
The people of American Samoa and the National Park Service welcome you into the heart of the South Pacific, to a world of sights, sounds, and experiences that you will find nowhere else in the United States. ... The park preserves the only mixed-species paleotropic rainforest in the United States, habitat of rare flying foxes (fruit bats) , as well as Indo-Pacific reefs . In keeping with the meaning of the word Samoa - "sacred earth" - the park helps protect ... [Read More]
Observatory Operations: SMO
The Samoa Observatory is located on the northeastern tip of Tutuila island, American Samoa, on a ridge overlooking the South Pacific Ocean. Established in 1974 on a 26.7 acre site, the observatory is the fourth of the CMDL Baseline Observatories. Since it’s construction, the Samoa Observatory has survived two major hurricanes with only minor damage. A staff of 3 operates the year around facility commuting to work. This Observatory has the distinction of obtaining 30% of its daytime power from solar panels. ... [Read More]
USDA Rural Development--Hawaii, American Samoa, Western Pacific Home Page
Our area includes Hawaii, American Samoa and the Western Pacific ... Welcome to the website for the Hawaii Office of USDA Rural Development. Administered from Hilo, Hawaii, we are dedicated to serving rural Hawaii, American Samoa and the Western Pacific. ... [Read More]
DOL WHD: Wage Rate in American Samoa
Every employer of employees subject to the Fair Labor Standards Act's minimum wage provisions must post, and keep posted, a notice explaining the Act in a conspicuous place in all of their establishments so as to permit employees to readily read it. The content of the notice is prescribed by the Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor and is included in the Minimum Wage Poster for use by American Samoa employers (PDF 39K). You can view and print it using the free Adobe Acrobat ® Reader ™ . The poster has been formatted to fit on a single, legal sized (8 1/2 inch by 14 inch) page. This approved copy has been adapted from the standard FLSA poster with modifications. It addresses the Act's particular application to employment in American Samoa and is made available for informational purposes and for employers to use as posters. ... [Read More]
U.S. EPA Region 9: Pacific Islands:Territory of American Samoa
The traditional lifestyle is known as "Fa'a Samoa", which continues to play an important role in Samoan society today. Greater importance is placed on the dignity and achievements of the group rather than the individual. The communal lifestyle is structured around the extended family, called the "aiga", which is a self-sustaining group whose members cooperate by contributing products of their labor to the aiga. The chief, or "matai" is chosen by family members and is responsible for the well-being of the aiga, maintenance of family lands and the communal economy. Villages are composed of one or more aigas with common interests and local pride. About 90 percent of the land is communally owned by aiga. The existing tenure law on communal lands prohibits alienation of any real property except freehold land to any person whose blood is less than one-half Samoan. Unless the Governor approves the transfer in writing, its is unlawful for any matai or a Samoan family to alienate any family la ... [Read More]
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