Goods-and-services imports rose by 3.4% in October, fuelled by higher oil prices as well as continued strong domestic demand for foreign goods.
These include a goods-and-services tax and the sale of the government's remaining two-thirds share of Telstra, the country's main telecoms company.
America's goods-and-services trade deficit widened by a greater-than-expected 9% in October.
Almost everything in the world - loans, goods, services - is priced in or priced off the dollar.
Some consumer-behavior experts say it is likely the merchants who find it easiest to adopt checkout fees will be specialists and boutiques offering hard-to-find goods or services.
The previous Labour government temporarily cut VAT - a tax on most goods and services - from 17.5% to 15% in December 2008 in an attempt to boost consumer spending.
At the same time there will be a rise in prices of capital- and skill-intensive goods and services which China needs to import.
But it's unclear how either of those two measures would directly boost competitiveness, or the ability of euro-zone businesses to produce world-beating goods and services at low cost.
While the CPI at one time was the measure desired by the public, government efforts turned the CPI away from measuring the price changes in a fixed-weight basket of goods and services to a quasi-substitution-based basket of goods, which destroyed the concept of the CPI as a measure of the cost of living of maintaining a constant standard of living.
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America's export boom is likely to be led by firms that are already global in scale and by sectors in which America has a clear competitive advantage: sophisticated, knowledge-intensive capital goods like microprocessors, and high-end services like engineering, oil-production services and even (witness KPF) architecture.
In February, an ECJ advocate general said this was in line with the aims of the EU single market - a border-free zone for goods and services.
CUC, of Stamford, Connecticut, is a big direct-marketer, selling discount goods, travel and financial services to its 68m fee-paying club members.
Increased demand for just about all other goods and services -- autos, houses, food, software, etc.
Roughly half of those jobs would be "induced" jobs, those "generated when highway construction workers respend their income on consumer goods and services -- like lunch at McDonald's or going to the movies or buying new clothes, " said Wells.
If the government creates a stronger social safety net for its citizens, Chinese workers will feel less pressure to save for health emergencies, unemployment and retirement, and more likely to buy goods and services -- and create a mature consumer-driven economy.
About anything a global market wants to know -- the price of goods and services, the status of inventories and shipments, the availability of capital and talent -- anything. n Transaction costs will continue to drop.
Apacs says that chip-and-pin remains the safest method of payment for goods and services but was never claimed to be foolproof.
The single market will also -- will allow free movement of people, goods, services, and capital throughout the five member countries that compromise -- Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi.
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As the name suggests, non-tradable goods and services are not traded across long distances.
Consumer credit is essentially the amount of credit used by consumers to purchase non-investment goods or services.
Weibi can be used to purchase virtual goods for gaming and value-added services on the Sina Weibo site.
The question is, is that spilling over into the prices of non-energy goods and services, and that's the big mystery right now.
Last year it banned their use to buy real-world goods and services, in part because of concerns about the impact on the yuan.
If energy prices remain near current levels, greater stability in the costs of producing non-energy goods and services will reduce pressure on core inflation over time.
Firms that produce petroleum-intensive goods and services may reduce their prices, which will cause consumers to spend more on these goods and spend less on other goods.
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Today, Congress can advance trade agreements that will help businesses sell more American-made goods and services to Asia and South America, supporting thousands of jobs here at home.
Pass the trade agreements that will help businesses sell more American-made goods and services to Asia and South America, supporting tens of thousands of jobs here at home.
Borrowing a strategy familiar to razormakers and electronics firms alike, Oshima figures he'll lure customers with good, cheap equipment, and earn his keep from add-on goods and services.
The biggest, an effort to prune the country's dreadful thicket of indirect taxes into a tidier form, an all-India Goods and Services Tax, has been pushed back by a year, to April 2012.
This is the basis of the Balassa-Samuelson theory which holds that average prices will be higher in countries with higher productivity (ie, high GDP per head), because higher wages will push up prices in labour-intensive goods and services.
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