The question then becomes: will US politicians really be willing to take the political heat that would emerge from prioritizing interest payments to foreign creditors over payments to American voters?
But they were structural reforms covering trade restrictions, the reorganisation of insolvent banks, and progress in negotiating a delay in the foreign debt payments of the private sector.
He, like a growing number of politicians, favours restricting foreign-debt payments, as a way to get the economy growing again.
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U.S. evidence provided in October 1988 has been looked into, but so far nothing has been found on Germans or German firms violating the Foreign Trade and Payments Act.
Concerned about the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), the far-reaching law that criminalizes improper payments to foreign officials, the company hires lawyers and accountants with great expertise in the region.
Oil companies generally decline to reveal payments to foreign governments, saying it would violate confidentiality clauses in their contracts.
The rule requires SEC-listed companies to report payments to foreign governments, subnational governments, and the Federal Government on a project-by-project basis.
Growth, inflation, the balance of payments and foreign exchange reserves are all expected to show the effects of lost businesses and reconstruction costs.
Key sticking points include residuals - the monies writers receive when their work is repeated on cable TV and in foreign markets - and payments from video and DVD sales.
Last year's vote on a controversial Dodd-Frank rule requiring U.S.-listed oil and gas companies to report payments to foreign governments for oil rights passed by a 2-1 vote on party lines.
It is the capitalism of economic stimulus: The money goes in, some money goes out, but a lot stays with the house and is chewed up in executive salaries, fees to flamboyantly untalented interior designers, and debt payments to foreign financiers.
Matsushita looks on such payments to its foreign partners as an investment for the future.
He had rejected their conditions, and in 1982 had suspended payments on the foreign debt.
The FCPA was designed to combat a specific wrong: payments made to foreign public officials.
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In much of East Africa you can now bank, even exchange foreign currencies and make international payments on a feature phone.
After fourteen years observing the effect of a broader rule, Congress believed that the indiscriminate taxation of investments in all domestic entities had a detrimental effect on the U.S. balance of payments by encouraging foreign corporations to invest abroad, rather than in U.S. securities.
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Credits in our balance of payments reflect the supply of foreign currencies and demand for dollars.
So far no one has claimed that any payments ran afoul of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Debits in our balance of payments reflect the demand for foreign currencies and the demand for dollars.
The later would reduce imports, increase exports, and, by improving our balance of payments reduce our reliance on foreign saving to finance domestic investments.
When the United States does run a current account deficit and hence (on net) borrows from abroad, it must expect to have to service that debt and it cannot meet those payments by generating outsized returns on its foreign portfolio.
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The country's payments system has broken down, and many foreign banks will not accept Indonesian letters of credit, throttling trade.
Depending upon the amount of registered capital invested, the foreign shareholder may make shareholder loans to the WFOE, with payments of interest and repayment of principal not subject to profitability.
Russia still had a current-account surplus last year, but if oil prices continue their recent decline, the balance of payments will soon look less healthy and the need for foreign investment may become more urgent.
Illicit payments continued for years after Germany outlawed the bribery of foreign officials in 1999 and after Siemens listed its shares on the New York Stock Exchange in 2001, which made it subject to America's tough anti-bribery laws.
Congress and the Treasury have instituted policies to prevent companies from claiming credits on payments that should not be classified as income taxes paid to a foreign government.
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The supply of dollars on the foreign exchange market is reflected in debits (above the line) in the balance of payments.
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Since the mechanism of a currency transactions levy is supposed to be based on taxing the net position of foreign exchange transactions, it could represent a restriction of the free movement of capital and payments (Article 63 TFEU).
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