From China, his company takes online orders in 17 languages for all kinds of customized garments and gadgets, fulfills them in Chinese factories, and ships the goods direct to consumers worldwide.
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For most of the past 65 years, federal, state, and local governments had a larger direct economic role producing goods and services than they do today.
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The same logic applies to public subsidies for any good or service where producers enjoy significant monopoly power: Direct provision of public goods has market forces on its side, while subsidies for private purchases work against the market.
Direct Web buying, often aided by a logistics partner, allows many goods producers to sell direct.
Dell became a market leader in computers through early use of the internet to sell goods and services direct to consumers, and to buy components from suppliers.
CUC, of Stamford, Connecticut, is a big direct-marketer, selling discount goods, travel and financial services to its 68m fee-paying club members.
There shall be freedom of transit for French goods through Haifa and by the British railway through the brown area, whether those goods are intended for or originate in the blue area, area (a), or area (b), and there shall be no discrimination, direct or indirect, against French goods on any railway, or against French goods or ships at any port serving the areas mentioned.
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Instead, they pass the order along electronically to manufacturers or distributors who then ship the goods from their own warehouses direct to the buyer.
Instead of straightforward cross-border exchanges, the vehicle for trade in both goods and services can be foreign direct investment.
As ever, the government pays lip service to economic liberalisation, but has neither the courage nor the authority to free itself of the commitment to pay billions of dollars in direct and indirect subsidies: prices of basic goods such as fuel, bread and medicine are ridiculously low.
Emerging markets are direct or indirect sellers of economic resources and final goods to mature economies, and a recession in these economies will certainly spread to mature economies.
Though direct mail has worked well for luxury and mid-priced goods, catalogues may not be the right conduit for Proffitt's more standard fare.
First, the direct impacts will be an almost certain drop in purchases of IT goods and services by Federal agencies, with a secondary but lesser decline in state and local IT purchases.
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Parera commended Mukherjee for sticking to the deadline of introducing a uniform goods and services tax by April 2010 and abolishing certain direct taxes--the fringe benefit tax, the commodities trading tax and the 10% surcharge on income tax.
Brewer said a paid consultant World Help hired to seek gift-in-kind contributions, as donated goods are called, obtained an allotment of medical supplies from Direct Relief International, a Goleta, Calif. charity also on the Forbes list.
There is a strong case to be made that for certain goods and services, cutting out the middle man and providing direct public support is the most efficient, least likely to be captured, method we have available.
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And critics have taken direct aim at CEO Mike Jefferies, the man who transformed Abercrombie from hunting-goods store to a specialty retailer with scantily clad models, wondering whether he is still the best choice to lead the company.
"Foxconn produces goods for a lot of different companies, and there's been no direct linkage in this particular case to producing Apple products, " said Mr Innes-Ker.
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