They have to buy a certain number of vehicles every month, regardless of how good the vehicle is, at a price set by the factory.

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Part of the price was government money for a cheese-processing factory in the town of Ponte de Lima, of which Mr Campelo is mayor.

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About 300 farmers staged a blockade of its factory in Market Drayton in Shropshire on Monday after talks about price rises broke down.

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If East is going to import bikes, it will pay no more than two bushels in return (faced with a higher price, it would be better off moving workers back to the bike factory).

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Because the number of potential customers for such experimental sensors is small, the firms manufacturing them have to charge a high price per unit just to cover the fixed costs of designing the product, setting up the factory, and so forth.

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Car buyers pay for labour, steel and paint, but the price sticker may not reflect the full cost of the noxious goo the car factory spills into a river.

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