About half that sum goes to manufacturing companies, such as dsm Catalytica in Greenville, North Carolina, that offer both chemical ingredients and finished products, including cartons, bottles and packaging.
In little more than a decade, the country has become by far the biggest producer in the world of every industrial commodity from steel to glass to cement, and the finished products it exports to other countries are gradually matching and surpassing the sophistication of items produced indigenously in those countries.
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Place a tariff on imported crude oil and finished petroleum products.
But profits were slim, and it was during this period that Song decided the factory needed to make finished products and to own the brand.
But studies by the New York Federal Reserve Bank and others show that most Chinese imports are intermediate goods that are assembled into finished products in China and then sent to foreign markets.
They complain that barriers to China's domestic market mean that India is mostly shipping unrefined minerals and primary goods, getting finished products in return.
Moreover, during the three months ending January, the rate of advance in the producer price indices for intermediate products, and finished goods have all accelerated into double digit annual rates of advance.
China Integrated Energy, Inc. (CBEH) : A non-state-owned company, China Integrated has three main businesses: the wholesale distribution of finished oil and heavy oil products, the production and sale of biodiesel, and the operation of retail gas stations.
The various categories of the flat rolled products include hot rolled sheets, cold rolled sheets, coated sheets, semi-finished bars and plates and tin mill products.
He also defended the company's policy of releasing new services and tools to users before they were finished products.
The totals were then averaged and an absolute ranking assigned. (Xtreme Labs works with eCommerce retailers but did not have to rank any of its own clients, the company says.) Among those favorability rankings, Walgreens finished first on Apple products and sixth on Android phones, while CVS placed second over iOS and was the top performer over Android devices.
Against the background of the appreciation of the yen and the relaxation of trade restrictions, imports of finished products to Japan have expanded rapidly.
Often, one or two people operate 1, 2, or 4 rapid prototyping machines and produce thousands of parts, test models, or finished products.
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Both metals and plastics are traded in bulk form, before they are turned into finished products.
His iron and steel holding company Metinvest is feeling brunt of downturn with sales of finished products down by 50%.
This could be a trend, but it could also be part of a seasonal production cycle where Chinese companies import raw materials and components in the spring, in order to gear up to export finished products later in the year.
Traditional management frustrated the software developers, and usually resulted in products that were late or over budget or often never finished at all.
The finished products, which are hosted online, also feature extra assets like stills and footage from backstage, interviews, closeups of hair, makeup and products.
If things go well for U.S. Steel, the long equity position likely offsets whatever loss you would take on the CDS. U.S. Steel is far from immune to the price impact of Chinese demand, he says, and as a vertically integrated steelmaker it has exposure all along the process from iron ore to finished products.
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That plant creates finished Command products for the Americas while sending giant rolls of unfinished sticky foam to Singapore and Poland, where they are tailored for Asian and European markets.
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