Based in Spain, Inditex sources more than half its goods from its home country as well as neighboring Portugal and Morocco.
All the evidence suggests that, despite more than decade-and-a-half of goods being labelled in both metric and imperial, the British remain defiantly out of step with their counterparts across the channel.
Lucky (if ironic) for them, nearly half of goods exports are in energy and mineral resources, where the sky's the limit these days, but that leaves plenty else to sell in tougher world markets.
It found that almost half of the goods were listed on the online retailer's site too, and that Amazon's prices for individual products were on average 11% below those of the stores.
Within the 7, 100-island archipelago, PAL has long been the principal carrier of mail, newspapers, medicines, perishable goods, not to mention such vital exports as electronics, which account for half of all the goods the Philippines sells overseas.
Domestic sales are perking up as Chinese telcos roll out trials of 4G networks, but the fact remains that ZTE and Huawei get over half their revenue from exports of goods and services.
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Prices for consumer goods have fallen by half.
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They can expect to raise just over half of the market value of their goods.
Almost half of U.S. agricultural goods, which currently face average tariffs of 15 percent, will immediately become duty-free.
The world's richest fifth consume 86% of its goods and services, over half its energy and nearly half its meat and fish.
Wilkinson missed his first two attempts at goal and a first-half drop-goal but produced the goods when it really mattered in the final few minutes.
Just as reducing the constraints on trade in goods made the world richer in the second half of the 20th century, so reducing the constraints on the movement of people could be a powerfully enriching force in the first half of the 21st.
Procter and Gamble, the world's biggest maker of household goods, made a commitment in 2001 to source half of all new innovations from outside of the company.
More than half of its revenues come from trading and marketing other people's goods.
"You could say that Uruk is to blame for bureaucracy, " Mr. Wartke said half-jokingly when referring to the city's penchant for validating and recording goods.
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By industry, insurance, retail and consumer goods and government reported the highest levels of crime, with more than half of firms claiming to have been victims in the past two years.
The weather is significant for the overall economy as more than half of India's workforce is employed in agriculture and their spendings on various goods and services depend to a large extent on a bountiful monsoon.
In 2011, two way trade in goods and services between the U.S. and Mexico exceeded a staggering half trillion dollars.
Half of them say they have enough money for food and clothes but struggle to buy durable goods.
Durable goods, as in Boeing and Caterpillar, are double-weighted, while technology is half its index weighting.
The half-dozen expedition ships that also visit each summer provide an opportunity for locals to ply their goods and make an income (and for the kids who managed to commandeer a Zodiac left on shore, a bit of summertime fun).
More than half of that is from sales of digital items like movies, music and games, but also virtual goods.
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Half of that was papermaking, ink mixing, printing, transport, inventory, and the warehousing of physical goods.
About half the increase was due to higher petrol prices, but consumers also increased spending on a range of other goods, from cars to clothing to homeware and furniture.
But according to a number of studies, roughly half of East Asia's exports to China are components, such as semiconductors and hard drives, for goods that are ultimately exported elsewhere.
UN's Conference on Trade and Development reports that sub-Saharan Africa's exports of manufactured goods have risen by an average of just under 6% a year since 1980, less than half the figure for Asia's developing economies .
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