Sustaining innovations improve current highly profitable goods or services, making them even more profitable.
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Indeed, this week the Administration is putting forward a proposal advanced by the Department of Commerce to the members of the Coordinating Committee on Multilateral Export Controls (COCOM) which will cut the current list of controlled goods and technology by as much as 50 percent.
Despite the current economic climate, luxury goods remain in demand -- and the tiara is expected to sell at value.
This argument is generally applied to the prices of goods and services for current consumption by households or businesses.
"The current business model, selling low-margin goods and delivering them for free, is not viable for the long term, " says Rebecca Nidositko, senior analyst for online retail strategies at Yankee Group.
Actually, the thing that is most often the focus is the "current account balance", which means trade in goods and services plus some financial items, including remittances that migrant workers send home.
Rate cuts could potentially widen the current account deficit by encouraging consumption and boosting demand for imported goods.
Defense companies and business groups have long complained that the current rules are too broad and overlapping, unnecessarily subjecting some goods to export licenses.
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Rate cuts could potentially widen the current-account deficit by encouraging consumption and boosting demand for imported goods.
If energy prices remain near current levels, greater stability in the costs of producing non-energy goods and services will reduce pressure on core inflation over time.
One of the real weaknesses of the current system is the ludicrously inflated prices that Russian consumers pay for Western goods: prices are often 50% higher and in some cases significantly more than that.
The administration has berated Europeans for not importing more goods from Asia and thus taking the heat out of America's growing current-account deficit.
The current antitrust rules for limiting anticompetitive conduct by monopolists focus on forcing monopolists to share access to their goods or services.
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Much current negativism stems from imbalances in national accounts, namely the huge U.S. importation of capital and goods.
Large turnarounds in current account balances generally require a shift in competitiveness that re-allocates domestic and foreign spending towards locally-produced goods.
The spending level between current Kodak customers and current Shutterfly customers is meaningful, which leads to friction in up-selling Kodak customers to higher price-point goods.
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