Additionally, heartland industrials like Cummins, Caterpillar and Deere, huge beneficiaries of foreign demand, would lose momentum.
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But Malaysia, which is much more dependent on foreign demand, will be hit harder.
The chart shows pretty clearly that China is now key to foreign demand for American logs.
The spike in the food price may have reflected high foreign demand as much as low domestic supply.
So Germany's reliance on foreign demand has proved more of a drag even than other countries' reliance on foreign savings.
Chinese exporters were hard hit by the fall-off in foreign demand last year that followed from the global financial crisis.
Fingers are crossed that foreign demand will revive quickly so that Germany can get back to a balanced budget soon.
And that crop surged 25% in volume last year in the U.S., some from increased foreign demand, some from domestic ethanol producers.
Firms were keen to invest on the back of healthy profits, solid foreign demand and hopes of a pick-up in consumer spending.
That has left Germany overly dependent on foreign demand, which has evaporated (orders for German goods have fallen by a quarter in the past year).
The response of German firms to collapsing foreign demand has been to slash their own investment, which has only added to the dearth in spending.
The weak dollar and high foreign demand are boosting another market.
Foreign demand contributed about 1.6 percentage points to Japan's fourth-quarter growth.
Foreign demand was assessed by the state trading agency, and the makers of instruments were allocated schedules of production in January to fulfil through the year.
As long as their overseas markets are also suffering from the global downturn, the pound's fall is not enough to make up for weakening foreign demand.
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Much more significant than speculation about a hypothetical decline in foreign demand for UK higher education are the indications of actual decline in domestic demand for more education.
The already-large foreign demand for investments in the U.S. is likely to grow from here, putting upward pressure on the trade deficit even if foreign growth continues to accelerate.
Third, despite the recent pick-up in global economic activity, Japan cannot count on foreign demand being strong enough for it to sustain export-led growth, as it did in the past decade.
Foreign demand has helped to stimulate Japan's struggling economy.
To maintain its currency peg, the People's Bank of China has to create enough yuan to satisfy foreign demand for the currency at the going rate of 8.3 yuan to the dollar.
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Considering our foreign trading partners, they can't buy from us unless we buy from them, so won't a subsidy that will mostly benefit U.S. carmakers lead to reduced foreign demand for other American goods?
Indeed, as both America and, ironically, Germany found in the 1980s and 1990s, big budget deficits, if allied to tight monetary policy, often strengthen rather than weaken a currency by increasing foreign demand for it.
In response to foreign institutional demand, some asset management companies are refocusing on Japan.
Debits in our balance of payments reflect the demand for foreign currencies and the demand for dollars.
Sales in the New York flagship store increased 41 percent in the second quarter due to strong foreign tourist demand.
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Back to that Economics 101 course: I learned that there is a connection between the supply and demand for dollars in the foreign exchange market and the demand and supply respectively for foreign goods and services.
To the extent that the Clunker plan leads to increased demand for foreign cars manufactured here, the demand is once again artificial and we do no company--regardless of country--a favor when we subsidize work for the sake of work.
Demand for our exports supplies foreign currencies and a demand for dollars.
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