In recession people are turning against the euro, globalisation and the import of cheap foreign products.
But marketing foreign products in emerging markets is a game where relationships and instinct are everything.
Countries have already begun to seal off their markets against foreign products in an effort to protect domestic producers.
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Governments often impose anti-dumping duties on foreign products to right this terrible wrong.
China has proposed separate inspection standards for domestic and foreign products a loophole that could provide ample opportunity for blocking unwanted imports.
Falling consumption dashes hopes around the world that Chinese consumers will be buying foreign products and thereby stimulating growth in other countries.
Rarely have such foreign products made such an impact on China's market.
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Buying foreign products may add to food miles but it can also cut down on the need for heated greenhouses or intensive farming.
For the first time in 24 years -- Americans like your product better than they like foreign products that are made here. (Applause.) That's a big deal.
If a wimpy greenback meant fewer purchases of foreign products by American consumers, domestic consumption in Europe and Japan might not rise by enough to take up the slack.
She was also frustrated with the way foreign products are fraudulently sold as American made goods because of lax law enforcement and how foreign made products are replacing American made goods.
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Japanese consumers are said (by politicians and bureaucrats, that is) to be either indifferent to how such protection reduces choice and raises prices, or to support protectionism because they fear contaminated and disease-bearing foreign products, and the vulnerability of Japan to blockages of agricultural product imports.
With foreign petroleum products expected to provide 70 percent of U.S. energy needs in the coming decades, energy conservation, independence and diversity have become paramount initiatives.
We knew it was critical that Little Pim come up consistently on page one of searches (both in organic and paid results) when parents were seeking foreign language products for their kids.
Oh and by the way, the United States will not budge on its protection for textiles and on its use of anti-dumping laws, and the European Union wants to carry on keeping out foreign farm products.
Imitation of foreign brand name products and store chains is neither new, nor unique to China.
So why do people imitate foreign technology or products in my country?
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The promise, coming from a retailer routinely accused of helping to decimate U.S. manufacturing by selling foreign-made products at bargain prices, was greeted by critics with a fair share of eye rolling.
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Then, in May, the Pentagon's Defence Contract Management Agency announced an inquiry into allegations that the company was violating the (aptly-named) Berry amendment, which has prohibited the use of foreign materials in products bought by the Department of Defence for more than 50 years.
Our effective tax rates were lower than the U.S. federal statutory rate primarily due to earnings taxed at lower rates in foreign jurisdictions resulting from producing and distributing our products and services through our foreign regional operations centers in Ireland, Singapore, and Puerto Rico, which have lower income tax rates.
The lesson: Local market sanctuaries cannot keep off foreign companies with superb products and the right strategy.
Because of subsidies from foreign governments, some of their foreign competitors are selling products at an artificially low price.
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The company has rolled out similar products for foreign exchange and European bonds, and one for mortgages is due soon.
First is free trade, which enables American businesses to sell products in foreign markets without having to overcome high tariffs.
The Retail International segment comprises of bancassurance activities in foreign markets and insurance products such as car, property and casualty, marine, and fire insurance.
American small businesses need free trade agreements to restore their ability to sell products in foreign markets without having to overcome high tariffs.
The International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) allow the president to ban foreign sales of military products and services if he deems it in the national interest.
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Not far away on a recent Thursday afternoon, at a Mothercare store on Huaihai Middle Road, wealthier Chinese shoppers were spending big money for baby products with foreign labels.
Gati's enthusiasm -- which she shares with many of her colleagues in the Clinton Administration -- for the sharing of American intelligence products with foreign governments and multilateral organizations (such as the United Nations).
The enforcement chief also created five specialized units to oversee the following areas: asset management, large scale market abuses, complex derivatives and financial products, foreign bribery and corruption, and the municipal and public pension markets.
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