One argument may be that allowing foreign owned companies to operate in the health insurance market undermines the regulation by individual states under the current regime.
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Imagine a U.S. automobile market with no foreign owned companies.
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In manufacturing, foreign-owned companies accounted for 36% of value added and 27% of employees.
In services, foreign-owned companies generated double the value added per worker, and had labour costs 30% higher.
But also, as cynics point out, the governor needs cash to ensure his election, and foreign-owned companies might provide it.
Like many of his fellow managers at the sprawling park, home to over 800 foreign-owned companies, Tang is not a citizen of China.
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Secondly, the foreign-owned companies were simply also better at coming up with new stuff on their own, in comparison to their domestic counterparts.
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Meanwhile, much of the profits from resource exploitation leave the continent entirely in the hands of foreign-owned companies which pay low rates of tax.
Commerce said that the government gave the approval for a whopping 18, 000-plus new foreign-owned companies to do business in China, up 7.7% from last year.
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Brazil just passed a decree limiting acreage held by foreign-owned companies.
The AFP news agency also reports that Mr Mugabe on Friday told delegates to his party conference that he wanted to seize full control of foreign-owned companies.
For the rest of us, it is of little doubt that competition from foreign owned car companies has led to higher quality and lower priced products for American consumers.
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Since 1993, when Mercedes built its first passenger-vehicle plant in the United States in Vance, Alabama, the state has focused on attracting foreign-owned companies, of which it now has over 300.
Foreign-owned companies supplied the state with 345, 000 jobs.
Our list excludes foreign companies, businesses that don't pay income taxes, mutually owned companies, companies with fewer than 100 workers and companies that are 50% or more owned by other private or foreign companies.
Meanwhile, foreign-owned car companies have created some 20, 000 new jobs in mostly southern factories.
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He also pledged to punish foreign-owned power companies that he said charged too much.
In the case of South Africa, foreign-owned public companies served a vital role in the economy by creating revenues and offering technical support for the South African government.
American companies, such as ExxonMobil would be effectively rendered uncompetitive against foreign owned oil and gas companies.
Foreign-owned resource extraction companies are often criticised for providing little in the way of local employment and contribution to local economies.
In 2010, according to a study by the Australia Institute, eighty-three per cent of domestic mining production was owned by foreign companies.
As a result, terror-free investing can bring pressure to bear on foreign-owned and -operated companies on what might otherwise be described as an "extraterritorial" basis.
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The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act bans U.S. companies from offering or paying bribes to foreign government officials or employees of state-owned companies.
Also in the building were 14 Chinese-owned companies, the Foreign Trade Ministry in Beijing said.
Many foreign companies, including Chinese-owned, are tapping into its natural resources, although critics say that most poor people are not benefiting from the surge in business.
After taking on the European Union over carbon emissions earlier this year, she could be setting herself up for a battle with other member states after announcing that Germany was looking at ways to protect its companies from foreign state-owned investment funds.
The only problem: foreign companies that compete against U.S. companies, such as state-owned oil giants, aren't subject to the SEC's regulatory arm if they don't do business in the U.S. That could put American oil companies like ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips and Chevron at a competitive disadvantage to their foreign counterparts, oil advocates say.
Many companies -- especially foreign-owned -- say they will not even consider such locations for new sites.
Two separate cases came to light at roughly the same time this summer, both involving bribes allegedly paid by foreign companies doing business with state-owned firms.
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In the components industry, as in many other industrial and consumer goods industries in China, there are hundreds, even thousands, of individual customers and competitors, which include state-owned companies, private companies and foreign invested enterprises.
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