Add in higher domestic food and energy prices and surging labour costs, and the China price may soon be a good deal higher.
With the China price rising, everyone else wants to raise prices.
Host Steve Inskeep talks with NPR's Frank Langfitt and Alexandra Harney, author of The China Price, about what the future may hold for the world economy.
On the economic front, China is paying the price for its rescue plan.
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But the latest price surveys have raised the estimated price level in China (and so reduced GDP per head measured at PPP).
The fact is that the truck market in China is very price-conscious, and the introduction of advanced technology tends to make the trucks of the international players unaffordable.
Cool as the iPhone is--I'm buying one this weekend--the price couldn't be sustained in the world of the cheap revolution, where Moore's Law drives the cost down and buyers in China and India set the price.
Take a look at the chart below, which shows the strong correlation between incomes in China and India and the gold price.
While inflation has been on the rise recently in China, 75 percent of the price increases are due to jumps in food prices, particularly for fresh fruits and vegetables.
But once investors understood what it is like to do business in China, the share price dropped by eighty percent.
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For multinationals, one benefit of listing in China is the high price investors there are willing to pay for shares.
When will the stock price of China solar panel makers stop collapsing?
The solution for China could be to effectively control the price of gold using dollars.
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What was already a difficult task has been made more so by concessions regarding on-site inspections in the negotiating end-game demanded by China as its price for signing the CTB.
Andy Rothman , the China Macro Strategist for CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets, believes that China is near the peak in food-price inflation and close to the peak in the overall rise in the Consumer Price Index for this cycle.
The sales price of new homes decline in China in August as the government high interest rates and other measures take their intended toll on the red hot real estate market, China Daily reported Sunday.
Beijing and Guangzhou cities both posted a monthly gain of 3.1%, the highest price hike in China.
Looking at the massive credit bubbles, including that in China, it seems clear that the price is being manipulated lower on gold and I would guess that the same entities doing the paper manipulation are buying the physical with the other hand.
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The brief went on to question why the petition named only China and not any of the other low-price third-countries since source-shifting is a common response to country-specific antidumping duties.
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Nonetheless, the domination of the Chinese heavy-duty market by the local players demonstrates once again the importance of price and the issue of affordability in the China market.
Ricardo Correa, the owner of Paramont Asia, which sold more than 35m pairs of ladies' shoes last year, moved to China in 1995, prompted by the combination of price pressures in Brazil and a shortage of skills in China.
The National Bureau of Statistics in China reported on Nov. 4 that the average price of everything from rice to soybeans is either unchanged from the previous month, or lower.
There is no question that the up-front ticket price is the most important consideration today in China, not the cost per kilometer over the life of the vehicle.
In the ratio of price-to-book value China is, at 4.6, the second priciest, behind another country with a superheated economy: India, which trades at 4.9 times book.
The price of labor in China is low in international standards.
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The Shanghai Composite Index added 0.1% to 2349.59 as investors considered the implications of China's consumer price index for January, up 4.5% from a year earlier, well above economists' median forecast for a 4.1% rise.
Allowing the renminbi to appreciate more rapidly would help reduce inflation, including the price of goods and services coming into China, allowing Chinese consumers to buy more with their income.
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The next logical step is to liquefy the gas and ship it at significant price premiums to Japan, China, and other countries across the Pacific Rim.
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The news could be a harbinger of even steeper price cuts for China, which consumes far greater amount of the raw materials than their fellow Asian nation.
The trading price of carbon and the low cost of panels manufactured in China attracts commercial interest.
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