U.S. retailers are turning in strong sales for January, a time of heavy promotions to clear holiday goods and make way for early spring merchandise.
Those who clear their goods late pay double or treble the usual duties (plus interest, at sky-high Russian rates, from the moment the shipment entered Russia).
But the lines are long and the patrons are leaving with large, clear plastic bags jammed with goods bearing the Masters logo.
There is a clear upward trend in the goods-trade deficits with both other European Union countries and the rest of the world.
Luxury goods makers are also clear winners from a weaker euro because most of their costs are in euros or Swiss francs and they sell in markets with dollar-pegged currencies or the yen.
To illustrate the importance of clear purpose, The Strategist touts Swedish home goods retailer IKEA, founded in 1943 by Ingvar Kamprad when he was 17-years-old.
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In the mid-1980s, when MasterCard entered the market, the clearing system between banks in different cities was (and is) almost non-existent: a cheque could take up to a month to clear, and many sellers would not release goods until it did.
"The food and drink sector is performing extremely well and it is clear that many counties have developed a taste for Scottish goods, " he said.
America's export boom is likely to be led by firms that are already global in scale and by sectors in which America has a clear competitive advantage: sophisticated, knowledge-intensive capital goods like microprocessors, and high-end services like engineering, oil-production services and even (witness KPF) architecture.
Perhaps this over 100-year-old company lacks a clear focus and target audience, with its overwhelming variety of goods at unexciting prices.
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The peddling of counterfeit goods is a crime, and his plea today makes clear that it is a crime we will prosecute.
Trucks are the most popular means of carrying goods and commodities and a decline in sales is a clear indicator of weaker economic activity.
It is the same story in manufacturing, For time-insensitive goods and long production runs, China is still the clear winner for global factory relocation.
In the productive sector, it is clear that the advantages the cities once had from reducing transport costs for manufactured goods are no longer important. but the urban advantage in saving transport costs for people and ideas still matters.
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MyBizHomepage.com then encrypts the data from QuickBooks and sucks it into the dashboard, which stays on as long as the Web browser is loaded, and delivers clear, concise status reports on key accounts such as cash, receivables and cost of goods sold.
And this prevents them from having clear visibility into their supply base, which makes it difficult to understand whether suppliers have the goods they need and whether they can be shipped on time.
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There are big stakes in Washington standing its ground, because it is increasingly clear that the slow growth of the U.S. economy is traceable to a yawning trade deficit in manufactured goods.
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