Banks encourage what is for them a profitable orgy of borrowing, and luxury imports surge. |
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He rejected their request for limits of Chinese imports of welded steel pipes. |
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A single pollinator imports sufficient pollen into an individual fig to initiate a full complement of seeds. |
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So it is with no bias that he has programmed four home-grown shows alongside the exotic imports in this year's event. |
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Morocco is dependent on imported fuel for most of its energy needs, and also relies on imports to meet food requirements. |
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For millions of poor peasants, it will mean being driven off the land by cheap agricultural imports. |
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Zambia's economic survival as a landlocked country depends on the transport system for the movement of its exports and imports. |
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The UN Special Committee that vetoes imports to Iraq disallows essential painkillers, such as morphine and other chemotherapy medicines. |
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The sanctions would clamp an international embargo on Sudan's oil imports, and ban weapons sales. |
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The retrenchment of gas imports has assailed the country's northern mining district. |
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The growth in imports is, among other things, already straining the food safety system. |
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Prices are not guaranteed, but imports are constrained by levies and restrictions. |
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Rebuilding those inventories will trigger a combination of increased U.S. production and a resurgence in imports in coming months. |
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In Toronto, I spotted ice wine retailing at double the price of good quality imports from France. |
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The model is used to estimate the impact of U.S. tariff elimination on U.S. production, prices, and imports. |
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The effect of the laws was to reduce total turnover by about 10 per cent, with a corresponding diminution of imports from other Member States. |
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Some 57 countries have banned imports of U.S. beef, devastating the industry. |
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He imposed highly protectionist tariffs on steel imports right at the beginning of his term. |
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A new structure of tariffs on imports is designed to further protect Russian industries from foreign competition. |
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Despite pessimists' fears, the U.S. is not drawing down national wealth to pay for imports. |
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It is also a prestige food, and so the country imports it to feed the urban population. |
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Each party is free, however, to determine unilaterally the level of customs duty on imports coming from outside the area. |
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Developing countries must reduce customs and other duties on imports by 24 per cent to facilitate imports at cheaper prices. |
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The main imports are raw materials, petroleum-based fuels, and consumer goods. |
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The sooner we develop them the less reliant we will be on imports of crude oil and refined petroleum products. |
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Oil gas and other gaseous hydrocarbons, crude aluminium, refrigerators, freezers and fertilisers top the list of imports from Romania. |
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They said steps taken earlier this year to slow growth in key sectors crimped imports of raw materials and cut into international freight rates. |
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It escaped, of course, like all imports do, and is now wiping out the much smaller native crayfish in the rushing streams of the Yorkshire Dales. |
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While forex can keep pouring in, other than payments for imports, there are not many outflows. |
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This combination is driving the marketplace opportunities for craft beers and imports. |
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Impressive as the quantities of imports from outside Europe undoubtedly were, they still need to be kept in proportion. |
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Once a cutting-edge alternative to stale imports and bland domestic beers, Sam Adams now is just another craft beer on a cluttered shelf. |
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Among the imports were decorative objects such as fans, prints, screens, and pottery and porcelains. |
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These measures had the effect of killing off Western imports, especially those of luxury consumer goods. |
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In the past year, consumer goods and autos have accounted for half the overall advance in imports. |
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Only the ratio of the imports of services to total services produced has remained roughly constant during this period. |
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The fill also contained a large number of restorable vessels, with an unusually high incidence of Mycenaean imports. |
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The European Union confirmed that the ban on imports into EU countries was only applicable to ostrich meat, live ostriches and fertile eggs. |
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However, it would also add to the inflationary pressures discussed below, by raising the cost of our imports. |
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Parliament has partly lifted the prohibition on imports and exports of cash via post deliveries. |
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Further, these countries have practically blocked developing country imports under the stringent norms of sanitary and phytosanitary measures. |
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Luke is the oldest and the least important employee of a dismal company that imports cloth. |
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This aid, he said, could take the form of import duties or, in rare cases, prohibition of imports. |
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It is then only a small step to the mistaken notion that imports should be discouraged, perhaps through import controls. |
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Tax revenues collected from imports and exports of goods this year are expected to be lower than the government's earlier target. |
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These days, Korean farmers are suffering from imports of cheaper Chinese products that are rapidly replacing local goods. |
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But ships are now being serviced, so imports and exports will look stronger in November and beyond. |
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This is particularly true when measuring retail sales and imports and exports, where changes in prices might reflect other factors. |
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In the poverty-stricken countryside, the situation is only going to deteriorate after WTO entry triggers imports of cheap foreign grain. |
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Trade barriers and overvalued exchange rates encourage imports and discourage exports. |
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Ministry of Agriculture officials have long campaigned for a higher import tariff on rice amid growing imports of cheap rice products. |
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The Bush Administration has slapped unilateral quotas on imports of Chinese textile products, with the threat of more to come in other sectors. |
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The President also made preliminary moves to block imports of cheap foreign steel. |
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The decision to permit imports of GM animal feed by the EU is after rigorous testing over many years. |
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Although imports of capital goods used by factories have fallen, imports of cars, brand-name clothing, and other consumer goods are up. |
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For exports and imports of goods and services, Census international trade data are the primary source. |
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From 1997 to 2002, imports of goods and services increased by a third, while exports of goods and services were flat. |
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In the decades following the Second World War there was strong competition in many markets from cheap imports. |
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He said intense competition from cheaper imports in the local market has resulted in persistent price wars. |
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Everybody knows that a falling dollar will boost the economy by making exports cheaper and imports pricier. |
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The president confirmed he was imposing tariffs to protect beleaguered US producers against cheaper foreign imports. |
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Getting the manufacturing association to back a duty on low-priced Chinese imports was a victory for small manufacturers. |
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She said the move was meant to ensure that local production of wheat was not discouraged by cheaper foreign imports. |
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With cheap imports, excess production capacity, and anemic spending, consumer prices keep falling. |
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The EU imposes tough sanitary and phytosanitary conditions on imports from southern African. |
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Consumers in particular have been spending freely, and their purchases of cheap imports help to stretch the buying power of their paychecks. |
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As well as this radical departmentalizing of knowledge, Aristotle imports a further difference. |
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Of the factors impeding industrial activity, only competitive imports increased their negative impact in June. |
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The fall in silver imports lead to the government minting copper coinage called vellon. 1599 to 1620 saw two decades of vellon production. |
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But the other side of the coin, an increased range of cheaper imports, is just as important. |
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This dependence on imports has prodded the nation into tremendous achievements in improved efficiency. |
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It is impossible to judge to what extent remaining motor vehicle tariffs restrict imports and market penetration from developing countries. |
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The weakness of sterling is another challenge for the company, as imports penetrate the Irish market from the North and Britain. |
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Virtually all imports, with the exception of Canadian ice beers, have demonstrated strong growth over the last two or three years. |
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Cement and clinker imports declined 6.5 percent in 2002, according to a recent PCA report. |
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Cement and clinker imports play an important role in supplementing domestic capacity constraints. |
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With additional analysis of shipping market development, the study also includes detailed appraisals of cement and clinker imports and exports. |
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In the U.S., we import almost everything under the sun, and many of those imports are hydrogenous. |
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Recent outbreaks of diseases, including classical swine fever in Britain, had also highlighted the risks posed by imports of food products. |
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Within a month, he shifted his stance, endorsing the use of compulsory licensing and parallel imports of drugs to South Africa. |
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Territorial protection in distribution agreements is not permitted where parallel imports are excluded. |
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If you look deeply into the entire automotive scene the new craze in imports really isn't that different than the early days of hot-rodding. |
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For now Chinese manufacturers rely on imports of integrated circuits since local chipmakers cannot provide sufficiently sophisticated products. |
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Only four ship terminals capable of handling imports of supercooled liquid natural gas exist in the U.S., and they're at full capacity. |
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In assessing Glasgow Rugby's impending season, none of the imports is nearly as important as one home-bred Scot. |
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The ruling is expected to boost used car imports to Finland, especially from Germany. |
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The evil arms dealing world of imports and exports has created him and from now on we will have to have him for breakfast in one form or another. |
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Zimbabwe, once a regional breadbasket, now suffers acute shortages of food, hard currency, petrol and other imports. |
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From September 2002 to September of this year, Chinese imports of cotton brassieres shot up 53 percent. |
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Demand for cattle has been hampered by the flood of cheap unlabelled foreign imports and generally the price has dipped. |
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In contrast, Zambia's imports rose in the same period under review leading to unfavourable trade imbalances. |
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High amounts of crude exports artificially boosted the bolivar making imports cheap and destroying local industry. |
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And imports reflect the uncompetitiveness of much local industry, as well as expensive oil and investment-oriented purchases. |
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Conflicts have raged for decades fuelled by illegal foreign arms imports and blood diamonds. |
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Our guys earned that reputation with decades of cheap and shoddy workmanship even as the top-tier imports were training us to expect much better. |
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To the extent that excess inventories of tech gear are imports, the burden of reducing the overhang will fall on foreign orders and production. |
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We certainly expect this situation to only worsen, with the current refinancing boom perpetuating the over consumption of imports. |
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He said this situation had put the issue of imports very high on the agenda. |
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He retired from the post in 1971, just as structuralism, semiotics and other French imports began their invasion of film studies. |
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All exports are prevented and imports are heavily restricted, including fuel. |
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Greater openness to trade has resulted in a vast increase in world exports and imports. |
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And certainly a good number of Britishers, native and imports, were making good use of India to enjoy their journey. |
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Indonesia also imports oolong, which is available at tea boutiques in Jakarta and other major cities. |
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China's exports increased 40 percent last year, while its imports from Latin America soared by 79.1 percent. |
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Prices fell, imports slowed, exports boomed, and specie flowed into the country. |
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The U.S. imports nearly all of its coffee, and those prices periodically spike and have climbed steadily. |
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As more of the manufacturing gets onshored, the share of machinery imports has been gradually declining. |
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Most illegal imports are beef, pork or chicken, but the trade also includes meat from endangered species, known as bushmeat. |
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As cartel pricing crumbled, imports flooded in in large quantities for the first time. |
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A third said the low prices helped stymie imports from places like India, China and Ukraine. |
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This squashes other export industries and sucks in cheap imports, damaging others. |
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This is because exports can now be sold or imports bought more cheaply or more easily inside the trading area. |
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Coffee, tea, sugar, cardamom, rice, cloth, and some manufactured items were the main imports. |
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The balance-of-payment deficit became a major concern as imports soared and exports stagnated, which further raised the mountain of debt. |
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Farmers are urging the public to sign a petition calling on the Government to tighten controls on illegal imports. |
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Rice imports grew from virtually zero to 200,000 tonnes a year, at the expense of domestically produced staples. |
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Zimbabwe will now rely on imports of staple food from Kenya, Brazil and South America, said state radio. |
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In 1998, just over 51 percent of all beef imports consisted of trimmings and manufacturing grade beef which are ground into hamburger. |
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Consumer imports include cosmetics, stereo equipment, sporting goods, and household products. |
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To cut down on expensive oil imports, Cuba has started turning this, sugar cane, into the substitute of black gold. |
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Prices tumbled, imports poured in, banks lost their silver reserves and collapsed, and industrial firms went bankrupt for lack of cash. |
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The slowdown stemmed from a decline in imports of capital goods and consumer products. |
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Atlantic Coast began operations in 1987 and imports 30 percent of its wood mouldings. |
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Within a country when a baker imports shoes from a shoemaker he pays with the bread he produced. |
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The general trend is towards currency management against a basket which reflects the trading mix of imports and exports. |
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Transportation equipment, machinery, cement and other building materials, iron, and steel are major imports of Somalia. |
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The exports and imports of the world had, in 1840, a value of 28, in 1889 of 74, milliards of marks. |
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He was forced to fly to Shanghai last month in a last-minute bid to head off a trade war about surging textile imports from China. |
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If exports exceed imports, there is a trade surplus and if imports exceed exports, there is a trade deficit. |
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Just to define the terms a little bit, the trade deficit is the excess of our imports of goods over our exports of goods. |
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It is not just a trade deficit as a result of imports growing faster than exports. |
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At the same time, India's imports from China touched 1.74 billion US dollars, up 72 per cent. |
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And technology imports as a whole have inched up over the past three months, topping the year-ago level. |
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With food supplies guaranteed by imports from upriver, Pearl River delta farmers turned first to fruit and then to sericulture. |
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We should not be swayed by 17th century mercantilism, which viewed imports as bad and exports as good. |
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The sector is battling against cheaper imports because of the strength of the euro. |
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Both exports and imports fell in part because of tighter security measures. |
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These imports are used to feed patients in hospitals, learners in schools and soldiers in the army barracks. |
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The Hydraulics division imports and distributes hydraulic equipment to the domestic market. |
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Southeast Asia's imports of U.S. consumer-oriented foods and edible seafood products were growing rapidly before the crisis. |
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Potter Group is funding the new buildings and their maintenance for a major customer who imports linens and textiles. |
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Other imports include the poisonous corncockle from the Mediterranean, the Himalayan balsam and the New Zealand willowherb, an aggressive weed. |
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The rule also affects imports of other devices including mobile phones personal digital assistants, scanners and network cards. |
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From 1680 onwards the European demand for tea grew, and imports began to steadily increase. |
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The US last month said it will levy tariffs on most steel imports to give its domestic industry time to rebuild. |
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Under the safeguard, Japan can levy stiff tariffs on the imports if their volume exceeds the average of the past three years. |
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The European Commission yesterday ordered a ban on all imports of birds and feathers from Turkey amid new fears over avian influenza. |
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Countries also collect species-specific trade data to produce an annual report that tallies all imports and exports. |
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Tonight, we'll show you how some of those imports put your health and safety at risk. |
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A weaker dollar would give hard-pressed U.S. manufacturers some relief from low-priced imports. |
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Namibia will also not be affected by the rush on maize imports, as it is not land-locked like some other countries in the region. |
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A spokesman for Waitrose said its only imports from France were of quail and guinea fowl and these had been suspended. |
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The mark-up of imports of U.S. goods through Dubai is estimated at twenty percent. |
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Much of the trade sought to replace imports with local substitutes of acceptable quality but lower cost. |
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This law, the so-called escape clause or safeguard law, provides protection to industries injured by imports. |
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The US is considering imposing tariffs or quotas on steel imports to protect its troubled steel industry. |
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Under the curb, effective for 200 days, higher tariffs will be imposed if imports exceed quotas allocated to importers. |
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The idea that quotas on China's imports will spark a revival in US undergarment manufacturing is misplaced. |
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In this scenario, the country will plan to pay off the temporary excess of imports at a later time, with proceeds made from future export sales. |
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It might seem as though a quota that limited imports to 50 percent of their pre-quota level would accomplish the same thing. |
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A fundamental tenet of trade theory is that trade amongst nations should be balanced evenly between imports and exports. |
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Their current account is nearly balanced, so a revaluation will have significant implications for imports and exports. |
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Further, growth in total exports will outweigh growth in total imports leading to an improvement in the balance of payments. |
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He imports horse feed and other equine equipment into Japan and he explains why all this is happening. |
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He was whining and rambling about the shortage of coal imports in his country. |
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He imports sugar, salt and rapeseed oil from southern Sweden and everything else is sourced, grown or otherwise produced in the surrounding area. |
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All other vine varieties, Pliny asserts confidently, are imports from Greece. |
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The program reads the information from your CD and imports it to your collection. |
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It might need adjustment, e.g. a duty on luxury imports to bring it to the present tax take. |
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As a consequence, American economic growth in general sucks in more imports than Euroland's growth sucks in American exports. |
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In the balance of payments the money flowing in comes from export receipts and from capital imports. |
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In March 1999, Russia unilaterally cut customs duties on some Bulgarian imports and has been expecting Bulgaria to reciprocate. |
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One consequence was the virtual wipeout of Mexico's small farmers by a flood of subsidized U.S. food imports. |
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The Asante, Ewe, Fon and Fante peoples provided the bulk of imports into Barbados. |
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Beijing initiated an antidumping investigation last month into imports of art paper from Japan, Finland, South Korea and the United States. |
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Remember, parallel imports aren't cheap knock-offs from Hong Kong, but usually end-of-line goods imported by a third country. |
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The NHS in the UK imports doctors from other countries in order to redress the perceived shortage of doctors in this country. |
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Unfortunately, they increased the price of imports at a time of low liquidity, and contributed materially to a slump in world trade. |
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It should not therefore fall within Article 30, even if it did in fact lead to a reduction in imports. |
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The more we open up our borders to imports, the worse our trade deficit gets. |
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Cardiological equipment, surgical and orthopaedic instruments, respiratory equipment, and diagnostic apparatus are among the primary imports. |
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Attempting to imitate the hand-painted and lacquered look of Far Eastern imports, they cut up and glued the paintings to plain furniture. |
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The libretto imports a number of Elizabethan lyrics which add to the overall lyrical quality of the work. |
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With very low inventories of gasoline and distillates in the US, any reduction in imports will have an exponential impact on prices. |
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The Japanese are an island people and, until fairly recently, were somewhat insular in accepting influences and imports from the rest of the world. |
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The bullion then entered the money stock of other countries, as with the British sovereign made of Brazilian gold, or was shipped eastwards to pay for Asian or Baltic imports. |
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Perhaps we will be squeezed out altogether but when you see diseases like avian flu in foreign imports it reaffirms consumer confidence in British poultry. |
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An absurdly overvalued dollar is making imports hypercompetitive. |
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The main methods are tariffs and quotas to limit imports, plus production subsidies and export subsidies to sustain farm activity and disperse the output. |
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Both the EU and the French government will come under pressure to fork over handouts to struggling vintners and to push for quotas on New World imports. |
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In theory, a declining dollar should help the U.S. balance of trade by making imports relatively more expensive to Americans and exports relatively inexpensive to foreigners. |
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He shares 44th place with David, 50, and Luisa Scacchetti, 52, the husband and wife team which owns Mama's and Papa's, which imports and wholesales prams and pushchairs. |
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In 2002, cotton fabrics accounted for 21.41 per cent of Bulgaria's imports from Portugal, agglomerated cork at 11.32 per cent, and synthetic fibres at 9.86 per cent. |
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The government reimposed a 30 percent duty on imported rice and 25 percent duty on imported sugar in January 2000 to protect local farmers against cheap imports. |
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The reinstatement of the ban generated concerns from consumer groups that the government should not have lifted the ban on US beef imports in April. |
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As well as distribution services, the company repackages imports and obtains customs clearance for its clients which include dozens of toy shops throughout the country. |
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This means that the governments will be left with considerable latitude in deciding the extent of tariff they intend imposing on certain necessary imports. |
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Stockpiles of grains continue to decline, says the ministry, but it believes supply will meet demand through imports and releases from state reserves. |
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This former Soviet satellite country struggling to re-orientate its national economy towards the West is still heavily dependent on Russian natural gas imports. |
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Since then it has been found mainly in rhododendrons and viburnums, pieris, camellias, lilacs and other plants which have been imported or sat alongside imports. |
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The few glass beads, and one of rock crystal, are also imports. |
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Unaffected countries have already banned imports of live birds and meat. |
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Each year, Hong Kong imports 1.6 million live pigs from the mainland. |
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Proponents say biofuels could help end our dependence on oil imports, boost a sagging agriculture industry and reduce environmental damage caused by burning fossil fuels. |
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There are Japanese beers available made from rice at the liquor store if you need that brew taste, but it's unlikely that your run-of-the-mill bar has Japanese imports on tap. |
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He imports the cotton and silk sarees from Chennai, Mumbai and Coimbatore. |
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Farm exporters are seeking substantial cuts in tariffs on agricultural imports as well as related subsidies, but importers are in favor of gradual reform. |
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Imports of mackerel, herring and scad from Northern Ireland and Scotland are rarely designated as imports, however these are included in the Irish export figures. |
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The ongoing trade dispute over steel imports escalated today. |
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It supports the restoration of a levy on grain imports from the Black Sea and Baltic regions and pledges to resist any further support price cuts. |
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An increase in imports from overseas, and automation of the weaving processes, mean that Selectus has had to keep ahead of the curve to stay in business. |
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But they did encourage imports of meat, fruit, vegetables, and wine. |
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By balancing their U.S. production with more imported merchandise, they hope to become more competitive with low-cost imports from Asia and other regions. |
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Iran imports food, machinery and even gasoline, as it cannot refine enough to fuel its own cars. |
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They also managed for years to keep a tariff on imports of ethanol, giving the U.S. industry a distinct advantage. |
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Second, Ukraine has been a tentative ally of Moscow and a huge trading partner,fourth in imports and sixth in export to Russia. |
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Tensions have been increasing between a number of countries and China recently over its trade surplus, surging textile imports and problems with product piracy. |
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The United States will then be forced into a trade surplus as incomes fall far enough to reduce imports and wages fall far enough to make U.S. goods competitive. |
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At EU level, exports to the CEE countries countries are higher than imports, which is an indication of the trade surplus that the EU has with the region. |
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Though the company imports its wood from a timber supplier, they cut and process it. |
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The company, which has partnerships with several Peruvian growers, currently imports minneolas and grapes and has plans to import other items in the near future. |
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But the drop-off in imports is acting like a shock absorber, because much of the fallout from weaker demand is being felt by foreign producers, not the U.S. economy. |
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Organic sauce imports include soy sauce, miso and salad dressings. |
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She revealed that the country's total imports had begun to drop since the third quarter, thanks to a high-level of accumulated stock of oil, steel and other raw materials. |
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Consequently, Trading Standards Officers are making arrangements for the imported hair dye to be removed from the shelves of stockists and to prevent further imports. |
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A report on the current situation says that no infected animals or people have been found in Bulgaria, and imports from neighbouring countries are strictly controlled. |
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Apparently the sea views are spectacular too, though I was sidetracked somewhat by an astonishingly well-priced wine list, which the restaurateur himself imports. |
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The significance of the imports is that those books are priced much lower. |
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Flint said the impact might be twofold, lower demand from the US brought about by the weaker dollar may result in a slow down in imports from sub-Saharan Africa. |
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British imports of tea were steadily increasing during the early nineteenth century, and the Chinese would accept only specie, usually silver, in payment. |
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And when word of that economic debacle spread, the government said it would ration imports of newsprint. |
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The problem here is not just that imports have been growing sharply, but also that official figures may significantly under-record the strength of imports. |
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This week, his administration filed a case with the world trade organization seeking to limit imports of car parts from China. |
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Also this week, the United States said it would limit imports from China of knit fabrics, brassieres and dressing gowns because sales had been climbing in the U.S. market. |
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Speaking in Hokkien, he also presented 10 labor policies, including tightening foreign labor imports and making the privatization process more transparent. |
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It could then export the surplus of this commodity in exchange for imports produced by other countries with respective comparative cost advantages. |
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For one thing, practically all of the dollars that go abroad to purchase imports or, now, to pay wages, come back to the United States, to buy goods and services here. |
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The hope is that a weaker dollar, by making imports more expensive at home and U.S. exports cheaper abroad, will close the trade gap and stop jobs from going overseas. |
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Yet local manufacturers of everything from toys to shoes, as well as farmers of rice and corn, are struggling just to survive the onslaught of cheap imports. |
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The growth in China's exports has almost been matched by the growth in its imports, bringing the west nearly as many opportunities from Chinese growth as it has faced threats. |
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The upshot is that domestic demand has been able to replace net exports as the engine of growth, while both exports and imports are rising at double-digit pace. |
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Even the tariff measure alone would pose a dilemma in view of the country's heavy reliance on imports for such food commodities as rice, sugar, corn and soybean and meat. |
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Even as vehicle tariffs fall in compliance with WTO rules, fuel economy standards will restrict imports of classic American light truck and luxury cars. |
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The supportive view has been founded on the pragmatic basis that Britain is integrally linked through imports and exports with the broader European economy. |
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A comparison of Colombian tobacco imports with US tobacco exports reveals just how many contraband cigarettes were being shipped southward from the United States. |
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Our balance of payments got progressively worse and NZ started to borrow overseas to bridge the gap between our imports plus invisibles, and falling exports. |
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The president will remain under pressure to encourage Beijing to float its currency, currently pegged to the dollar, which experts argue makes imports artificially cheap. |
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It significantly lowered internal price floors towards world market levels, opened its market to imports, and agreed to subsidize fewer export goods. |
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Among the most highly prized exotic imports were porcelains. |
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This was introduced about seven years ago, after some industries insisted on protection against imports to countervail the sales tax being paid on domestic products. |
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The industry blames the job losses on the US government's imposition of countervailing duties on softwood lumber imports from B.C. and most other Canadian provinces. |
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They also know that explicit efforts to shut out imports are usually political fool's gold, more likely to bring defeat than victory at the polls. |
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But this gradual shift downwards may put pressure on inflation as the cost of imports rise, forcing the Bank of England to consider upping interest rates. |
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In addition to the modest increase in demand, higher freight costs could put a crimp in cement imports, which account for about one-fifth of the market. |
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The borders are now completely closed for beef, fowl and pork imports. |
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And Cummins imports engines fueled by natural gas for mainland bus fleets. |
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The customs duty on imports was at first designed only to raise revenue. |
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Studies of ceramics and other commodities show a substantial drop in imports and dominance of markets by such British centres of production as the Oxfordshire potteries. |
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They also plan to import over a 1,000 dairy cattle to provide milk products in a country that imports just about everything, from milk powder to meat. |
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The capacity of North America to pay for its imports on such a scale depended to a considerable degree on its earnings from supplying the plantations of the West Indies. |
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Blaming them also provides a rationale for renationalizing Argentine firms, erecting barriers to imports and foreign investment, and increasing government spending. |
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Tighter border security is sure to slow import growth even more in coming months, although lower imports will worsen downturns in economies around the world. |
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Popular organic food imports include dry goods such as tree nuts, dried fruit, black glutinous rice, wheat flour, soybeans, grains, beans and lentils. |
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In the Middle Ages the main exports were textiles such as wool and linen while the main imports were luxury items. |
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Only the richest could afford these early imports, and Kraak often featured in Dutch still life paintings. |
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Peppercorns are among the most widely traded spice in the world, accounting for 20 percent of all spice imports. |
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Although the bulk of imports to China were silver, the Chinese also purchased New World crops from the Spanish Empire. |
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To obtain raw materials, Europe expanded imports from other countries and from the colonies. |
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Jordan, which imports about 96 percent of its annual energy needs, plans to build several nuclear reactors for power generation. |
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Exports include copra, kava, beef, cocoa and timber, and imports include machinery and equipment, foodstuffs and fuels. |
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Russia's veterinary service also may ban pork imports from Belarus due to an outbreak of African Swine Fever, he added. |
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Fyffes has seven distribution and ripening bases throughout the UK and imports its bananas from South Africa, the Caribbean and Spain. |
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Agricultural policy is the set of government decisions and actions relating to domestic agriculture and imports of foreign agricultural products. |
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Unfortunately this cash crop has come under pressure in recent years due to globalization, which means competition with cheap imports from Egypt. |
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Critical imports were scarce and the coastal trade was largely ended as well. |
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By January 1, 1808, when Congress banned further imports, South Carolina was the only state that still allowed importation of slaves. |
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Major imports are motor vehicles, grain, timber, produce and petroleum products. |
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A grant of outfangthief imports the trial of those of his fee taken for felony in another precinct. |
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Japan imports large quantities from the United States, South Korea, and other producers. |
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Wheat, however, the grain used to bake bread back in England was almost impossible to grow, and imports of wheat were far from cost productive. |
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In 1950, imports outstripped exports for the first time in the port's history. |
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The war has blocked food imports, leading to a famine that is affecting 17 million people. |
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Protectionist policies coupled with a weak drachma, stifling imports, allowed Greek industry to expand during the Great Depression. |
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Excise taxes were added on luxury imports such as automobiles, clocks and watches. |
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This was especially harmful to Greece as the country relied on imports from the UK, France and the Middle East for many necessities. |
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Frozen hake and frozen hake fillet are effectively supplied by imports and European processing companies. |
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At the same time, American submarines cut off Japanese imports, drastically reducing Japan's ability to supply its overseas forces. |
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In this case, since our exports are higher than our imports, we are net lenders in world financial markets. |
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Another name for net exports is the trade balance, as it tells us the difference between imports and exports from being equal. |
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Since the value of total imports is a part of domestic spending and it is not a part of domestic output, it is subtracted from the total output. |
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Shops such as La Porte Chinoise specialized in the sale of Japanese and Chinese imports. |
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Tokugawa Iemitsu, ordered that an island, Dejima, be built off the shores of Nagasaki from which Japan could receive imports. |
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The French imported a third of their coal from Britain and 32 percent of all imports through French ports were carried by British ships. |
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For its size, Iceland imports and translates more international literature than any other nation. |
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Triangular trade usually evolves when a region has export commodities that are not required in the region from which its major imports come. |
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A quarter of Ethiopia's imports and half of its exports move through the ports. |
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It serves as a key refuelling and transshipment center, and is the principal maritime port for imports from and exports to neighboring Ethiopia. |
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For example, the US imports oil from Canada even though the US has oil and Canada uses oil. |
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Instead of importing Chinese labor, the United States imports goods that were produced with Chinese labor. |
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It has one of the highest consumption taxes in the world and taxes all imports in lieu of an income tax system. |
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