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First, distance and force structures inhibit the U.S. from making any immediate moves against Kim's regime.
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Furthermore, in 1986, the U.S. had one of the lowest effective marginal corporate tax rates for equity-financed investments in machinery and industrial structures in the U.S., and now we have one of the highest.
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For Japan this means an unwinding of the structures and alignments of the current U.S.-Japan security relationship.
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Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, private-sector Chinese entrepreneurs could set up offshore ownership structures in Hong Kong, the U.S. or the Cayman Islands, that through a new Chinese subsidiary would acquire operating business assets in China.
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Tax structures in Germany and many Asian countries make U.S. REITs less attractive than direct real estate ownership.
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Many of Cho's buildings are in South Korea, but some of his temporary structures, such as the "Air Forest" set up in Denver, U.S., in 2008 and "Ring Dome" seen in Milan and Yokohama, have made it abroad.
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In stark contrast, domestic finance and commerce in the U.S., and indeed international financial transactions, are based upon Western legal financial structures which provide Transparency.
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However, many U.S. allies in the Middle East and East Asia are expanding and modernizing their force structures.
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