GE never renounced involvement in future production, despite repeated requests for clarification. Some companies were more forthright. Other companies said governments, not corporations, were to blame for landmines' deadly toll. To do so wrongly maligns responsible U.S. citizens, and diverts resources that could be applied toward stigmatizing governments that violate international law. China has declared an export moratorium.
Many mines produced in Egypt are copies of mines designed in the United States, Italy and Russia.
Egyptian mines have been found in Afghanistan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iraq, Nicaragua, Rwanda and Somalia. Egypt has declared an export moratorium. Iraq, which produces a wide variety of AP mines. Although Iraq has imported huge quantities of mines, Iraqi factories have also produced copies of Italian, Yugoslavian and Russian mines. Iraq used huge numbers of mines in Kuwait and Iraqi Kurdistan, and is alleged to have exported AP mines.