The Dig and its assorted workers certainly consumed materials, equipment, and domestic goods.
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When these mature industries are foreign, supporters of the infant industry argument call for tariffs, a tax on foreign goods, to force the foreign price above the already higher price of the infant domestic goods.
According to Huckabee's reckoning, his plan will promote capital investment in the U.S. and make domestic goods cheaper and more competitive overseas because their prices will no longer be inflated by the payment of corporate taxes.
Domestic production must rise relative to domestic absorption of goods and services, or absorption must fall relative to domestic production.
It will reduce domestic absorption of goods and services without the unemployment that results from sticky nominal wages.
But while demand for Japanese products overseas improved, domestic demand for goods made outside Japan remained weak, falling by 35.6% in October.
This difference in standard of living, as well as the size of the U.S. market, supports investment in the domestic production of goods targeted for U.S. consumption.
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Turkey has especially benefited from strong domestic growth and sound policies that have helped increase the domestic production of goods as well as make its exports more competitive to attract capital.
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Since September 1999, for example, domestic shipments of consumer goods have risen by over 6%.
Much of that can be blamed on domestic demand for imported goods and higher cost of raw materials, like iron ore.
Goods-and-services imports rose by 3.4% in October, fuelled by higher oil prices as well as continued strong domestic demand for foreign goods.
However, they will face more competition from Chinese domestic firms in consumer goods sectors such as food and beverages, household appliances and personal care products.
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It seems that the Pentagon never, ever thinks through the economic fallout of its decisions, even though it generates over 10% of all domestic demand for manufactured goods.
Thus, the received wisdom among industry insiders in recent years roughly since Robert Gates took over as defense secretary in 2006 has been that companies should expect a gradual softening in domestic demand for military goods, which can be covered in part through increased overseas sales.
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If imported goods are cheaper than domestic ones, each dollar of imports might displace more than a dollar of goods but the government doesn't track imports by units, only by spending.
SEZs to sell some goods on the domestic market by raising the cost to them of doing so.
However, at the same time charity experts say it often takes the efforts of several nonprofits to collect, move and distribute the same batch of goods to locations domestic and foreign.
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Additionally, Brazilian businesses have been given until the end of April to submit lists of foreign goods that they deem to be competing unfairly with Brazilian goods on the domestic market, an indicator that additional tariffs may be forthcoming.
Gross domestic product, which measures total goods and service output within U.S. borders, was slightly weaker than the 0.7% Wall Street had expected.
Released on Friday, the GDP report shows that Real Gross Domestic Product (the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the US) increased at an annual rate of 1.5 percent in Q2 of 2012.
U.S. economic data due for release Friday includes durable goods orders and the gross domestic product report.
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And gross domestic product, the sum of all goods and services, is below the level when Cameron assumed power.
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U.S. gross domestic product, a measure of all goods and services produced in the economy, rose at a lower-than-expected 2.5% annual rate between January and March, the Commerce Department reported.
Further appreciation will cut into a rising real estate asset bubble, and give Chinese consumers more buying power by encouraging Chinese manufacturers to shift production away from the export markets, to making and marketing goods and services for the domestic market.
Large turnarounds in current account balances generally require a shift in competitiveness that re-allocates domestic and foreign spending towards locally-produced goods.
Low interest rates fuelled domestic spending and spurred inflation in wages and goods, which in turn made their exports more expensive and left imports relatively cheaper.
Friday's report reinforced many economists' sentiment that key elements of the economy remain firm, even as the government reported this week that gross domestic product the sum of all goods and services produced in the U.S. shrank unexpectedly in the fourth quarter.
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