Even as they rebuff some products, Japan's foreign customers are scrambling to get hold of others.
Foreign customers can obtain the comparable systems much faster from European and Japanese companies.
As a result, foreign customers have become a source of feedback in their own right.
Germany is among the countries which say it is being used by foreign customers as a tax haven.
This is the case even though it is, in some ways, easier to sell health insurance to foreign customers.
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Transactions can be carried out across borders electronically, or through a small office set up abroad to handle foreign customers.
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In some countries companies are allowed to form export cartels because the resulting higher prices will affect only foreign customers.
Now, the preponderance of foreign customers is seen as a strength.
To date about 89 percent of the money has been recovered for U.S. customers of the firm and around 18 percent for foreign customers, according to Giddens.
Different-size versions of the proposed rocket already have flown and are currently under development by Mr. Musk's team for U.S. government and commercial launches, as well as for foreign customers.
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In addition, it permits businesses that provide goods or services outside the U.S. to finance their foreign customers without being currently taxed in the U.S. on the resulting finance income.
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The companies all declined to discuss their foreign customers.
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Thus the Israeli business newspaper Globes reports that Israeli manufacturers are increasingly adapting their businesses to assuage fears from foreign customers about how they will fulfill contracts and carry out future business in the event of a conflict with Iran.
To date about 89 percent of the money has been recovered for U.S. customers of the firm and around 18 percent for foreign customers, according to the other MF Global trustee, James Giddens, who has overseen the liquidation of the firm's operations and distributed recovered funds to customers.
The foreign investment banks have two things that most domestic firms lack: access to big foreign institutional customers, which buy many of these financial instruments, and expertise in the techniques of modern finance.
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Elsewhere, the CEOs of eight major Nordic IT and telecoms companies recently signed an open letter warning that the new law could jeopardise Sweden's reputation as a leading IT nation and lead to foreign telecoms customers relocating their activities out of the country (Sweden is an important transit country for the majority of Internet traffic from Norway, Finland and Russia).
Forcing mobile operators to reduce what they charge foreign operators whose customers roam onto their networks (the wholesale price) does not guarantee that those foreign operators will pass on any of the reduction to their customers (the retail price).
The implication is that these would no longer be sold to foreign English and Welsh customers?
Never mind that most of the customers are foreign journalists who think they are buying a souvenir of an exotic time in their lives.
If the country's banks, whoever owns them, do not learn how to compete for deposits, they may start losing customers to foreign entrants that do.
The other factor, as I've written before, is that Scotland can only sell its wind and marine power, for all those subsidies from customers in foreign countries, if those technologies remain competitive.
Along the way, it discovered that customers, especially foreign ones, have strict cost requirements it needs to match.
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And for all the talk on Wall Street about global investing, it isn't especially easy for U.S. customers to buy foreign government bonds directly.
Apparently Detroit is taking a page from foreign competitors and actually letting customers choose what they want in their car, not what is easiest at the factory.
Internet cafes and other businesses that provide internet access will be responsible for the sites their customers visit, and foreign businesses can also be held liable.
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But it is also because the conservative culture of many state banks is ill-suited to foreign takeovers, and because many customers would prefer to deal with a privately owned bank.
Crown Currency Exchange, which was established six years ago, allowed individuals and business customers to pre-order foreign exchange at a set price up to a year in advance.
Pearson said she has owned many makes of cars, including foreign nameplates, and Saturn's treatment of customers beats them all.
Otherwise, any gains it makes on the factory floor will quickly be erased as its customers drive down prices or switch to foreign suppliers.
By that I mean that foreign expansion is great, so if you have customers in India, it makes sense to hire people there to deal with those customers.
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