Recessions in the third world and sluggish growth in Europe have kept the dollar up and American import prices down.
That American import thrived in Shanghai in the 1920s and '30s, brought there by a Chinese gangster with connections to the West.
One beneficiary would be Brazil's ethanol industry, which has little access to the United States, its largest natural market, because of an American import tax.
Hence they import American monetary policy, which may be too loose for their domestic conditions.
And low rates will also boost credit creation in those developing countries that import American monetary policy via managed exchange rates.
Of course, having helped push American consumers into import cars, albeit inadvertently, the federal government then tried to reverse the trend through new intervention.
And he is keen to import American- and Israeli-made cotton harvesters.
Formerly known as a purveyor of pricey, preppy gear, Abercrombie and Fitch - along with fellow US import American Apparel - is not shy of deploying sex to help shift its clothes.
Taobao made it basically free to end users to transact consumer to consumer. eBay tried to import the American model.
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Last week, the French were outraged anew by an American ban on the import of foie gras and other French meat products.
Even though American judges and politicians have tried to adjust this balance recently (see article), no sane European businessperson would want to import the American system as it stands.
Speaking before the Commerce Committee on Thursday, Evans said he would work as commerce secretary to tear down trade barriers and keep them down, while seeking to protect the interests of American workers and even import and export ratios between the United States and a number of key trading partners.
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But thanks to the wealth transfer from the U.S. exporter overseas, the ability of American firms and individuals to import is necessarily harmed by devaluation.
British steel workers, not surprisingly, feel aggrieved that Mr Mittal's American subsidiary wants the American government to impose steel import tariffs which would deal a blow to British exports.
The result was that Americans were almost forcibly exposed to import vehicles, and many American consumers liked what they found.
Because of the loss of wealth that is itself due to a falling currency, the American dollar-holder can't import as readily as in the past simply because the dollar doesn't buy as much.
Sempra, an American company, has signed a contract to import gas from Indonesia instead of Bolivia.
The American firm struck a deal last year to import InBev's profitable premium beers such as Stella Artois and Beck's.
On the one hand, it created a much larger audience for modern art and even led to a change in American customs laws making contemporary art easier to import.
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When the Great Depression started to crush America, Congress took what seemed like the obvious action, imposing huge import tariffs, aiming to protect American workers by keeping out foreign competition.
With such a commitment from actors, the company can afford to run weekly classes in, say, Shakespearian language, or import Augusto Boal, a South American guru, for a fortnights workshop.
Looked at from another angle, the problems in the Caspian fisheries have also provided plenty of economic incentive on this side of the Atlantic: American consumers are simply being priced out of the import market.
In turn, both American brands are pitching themselves as credible competitors to luxury import brands like Mercedes-Benz and Lexus.
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All this could, in turn, revive other bilateral disputes, subdued during the Doha talks: about unlawful tax concessions for American companies and about the EU's refusal to import genetically modified crops.
This same basic economic argument can be applied to trade: why import goods from abroad when we could get them from American businesses?
So the Export-Import Bank has more than doubled its loans in support of American exporters since last year, and that step alone has helped support nearly 110, 000 jobs.
The American carmakers exploited that by producing squadrons of SUVs, while the government restricted the import of small, efficient Japanese cars.
This winter Ace's U.S.-based competitors raised a stink about a tax rule that enables a corporate parent in Bermuda to import premiums free of corporate income tax by reinsuring some policies sold by its American subsidiary.
One plan involves lobbying the central government to deregulate airfares so that the local tourist industry can take off. (Just see what Hawaii has done since American air fares were deregulated.) Another proposal is to provide tax breaks for manufacturers who import components and then re-export the finished goods.
It would also help to silence American car makers who have seen their profits squeezed by the strong dollar and who might otherwise lobby for new import barriers.
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