Industry leaders and labor groups want politicians to support policies that protect domestic export-driven businesses, and pundits point out that imports lead to trade deficits.
Weak domestic and export demand for manufacturing had been worrying European firms for the past 6 months.
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In an effort to reverse course, Algeria and Sonatach have pushed for a broader approach to addressing both domestic and export demands.
Growth is expected to resume over the coming three months, although firms expect both domestic and export prices to rise over the same period.
"Companies that have a mix of domestic and export are doing very well, indeed, because they have hooked on to growing markets, " he said.
However, while the group said rising domestic and export orders had boosted sales it warned that recent market turmoil could hit growth in future.
For Israel at least, this tension has done little to slow their progress towards meeting both domestic and export needs with their existing and expected gas discoveries.
Algerian gas and electricity company, CEEG opened the tender late last month to local and international outfits, marking one step towards a progressive national goal of 650MW by 2015 and building towards 22, 000MW by 2030, with output almost evenly split between domestic and export demand.
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After becoming the third North African nation to join the Desertec renewable energy plan, Algeria announced a series of tenders in July, appealing to local and international firms to help work towards a progressive national goal of 650MW by 2015 and building towards 22, 000MW by 2030, with output almost evenly split between domestic and export demand.
Conservation International support the development of electricity generation for domestic consumption and export as these are critical components of development for Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.
Its March 5 ban aimed at boosting domestic supplies in light of a surging export surplus drew criticism from domestic farmers, political leaders and a key Chinese trade lobby.
Judging by the number of liquid natural gas (LNG) export permits being sought in the last two years (equal to over 60% of current domestic consumption), this export role is entirely feasible.
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New, forward-looking investments that would create new domestic markets here, export markets abroad.
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Yet, so far, this is where the Doha talks have achieved the least (there has been more progress on cutting domestic support and eliminating export subsidies).
The ADB forecast China's economy would expand by 8.2% this year, up from 7.8% last year, on the back of strong domestic demand and better export performance.
The economy's recovery will depend crucially on net trade, spurred by the big drop in sterling over the past two years, which will give an edge to domestic producers both in export markets and at home.
In an interview, Jennifer Cohn, medical coordinator for MSF's access campaign, said the ruling reinforces the idea that India won't patent drugs that are "not significantly innovative, " leaving generics companies free to produce many products for domestic use or for export to other countries where the drugs aren't protected by patent.
There is no way China can move from an export economy to a domestic one in that short a time to account for the large losses in the export markets.
Mr Lukashenka has also sabotaged the customs union with Kazakhstan and Russia, demanding that Russia scrap its export duty on oil and oil products, which would allow Belarus to buy them at Russia's domestic prices and to re-export them at a profit. (Russia wants to keep oil out of the union for now.) Russia's response is to reach for its favourite weapon: the gas taps.
Firms said they expected domestic prices to rise and export prices to fall a little.
And in the other areas of farm trade such as export subsidies and domestic support the horse-trading has barely started.
And, simultaneously, by artificially increasing domestic supply, the same export restrictions advantage Chinese manufacturing consumers of those materials.
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Fact four: foreign firms tend to export more than domestic ones.
The country has been hurt in recent months by softening export markets, depressed domestic property values and stockmarkets, and declining consumer and investor confidence.
U.S. economic data due for release Wednesday includes the weekly MBA mortgage applications survey, import and export prices, gross domestic product, and the weekly DOE energy stocks report.
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Similarly, retail industry leaders like Wal-Mart are typically adept at handling crises involving their supply chains, from problems related to domestic business partners to import and export issues triggered in China or other geographies.
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Recently, for example, I was in Nicaragua visiting a new client, a 700-member farmer cooperative that produces coffee for export and corn for domestic consumption The cooperative sells 300 tons of corn annually to its main buyer, the World Food Programme which is used to produce 6.7 million school lunches a year or one meal per day for 44, 000 children for an entire school year.
It also says it will steer the economy away from export-led growth towards domestic demand.
China has the challenges of moving from an export-led to a domestic demand-led economy.
Policymakers, meanwhile, have found it tough to boost domestic demand enough to offset the weaker export demand.
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