Organized crime groups often run their own legitimate businesses--usually transport or import-export companies--as front groups for money laundering.
Apart from declining sales--a fallout of the U.S. import ban--Ranbaxy's bottom line was roiled further by currency-related losses (see Ranbaxy Riled By FDA, Currency).
The trouble is that, after years of government-sponsored anti-import and anti-consumption campaigns, many South Koreans believe that most problems can be solved by saving more and not buying foreign luxury goods.
The alternative, a foreign-owned holding company, must operate under tight restrictions that forbid, for example, inter-company loans, foreign-exchange balancing, import-export, or even consolidated accounts across the subsidiaries.
That is partly the healthy consequence of liberal economic reforms in the 1980s and 1990s: the previous policies of state-led import-substitution tended to concentrate economic activity close to the centres of political power.
Concerning the prospect of restored Soviet access to U.S. Export-Import Bank credits -- this issue should be evaluated separately from the conditions under which the United States might grant MFN status.
The Export-Import Bank: A similar review is in order with respect to the lending and other export-facilitation programs of the Export-Import Bank.
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Moreover, governments began to abuse these loopholes for protectionist ends: anti-dumping cases and import-restricting regulations proliferated.
It was a basic structural problem where we became very consumer-oriented, very import-oriented.
Meanwhile the French - who prefer older, redder horse-meat - import most of what they eat from the US and Canada, where it is not eaten by humans but is sometimes fed to pets.
The most serious complaints seemed to involve import-export between Numbers-Excel.
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Ordinarily, a question of whether to reauthorize the U.S. Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im) and to increase its loan limit would be about asuncontroversial a proposition as one could find on Capitol Hill.
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An exchange of ambassadors could lead to Vietnam getting Most-Favored Nation trading status and Export-Import Bank loans, critical for buying high-priced items such as aircraft.
Mr. ISIKOFF: Well, the film does focus on one character, a man by the name of Darkazanli, who is a German import-export businessman, who was an - who grew out of the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria.
We were able to source competitively-priced bank loans like our recently executed secured term loan facility with the Import-Export Bank of Korea and ABN AMRO.
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First, the Export-Import Bank is a money-making activity for the U.S. government.
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Large, state-controlled lenders China Development Bank Corp. and Export-Import Bank of China are planning to pitch dim-sum bonds in London to investors, said people familiar with the matter.
Even as he targets international trade through the guaranteed-loan program of the U.S. Export-Import Bank, he is watching the home front--literally, with mortgages for developers who build low-income housing in southern California.
Meanwhile, import growth should slacken as firms reduce the pace of import-intensive stockbuilding.
Formerly known as a purveyor of pricey, preppy gear, Abercrombie and Fitch - along with fellow US import American Apparel - is not shy of deploying sex to help shift its clothes.
He is sending the head of the US Export-Import Bank, on a fact-finding mission to Argentina and Brazil.
The FDA's just-announced import ban on some farm-raised seafood from China, based on its concerns about chemical residues, attracted bad press for Asia's export powerhouse and was more bad news for the worldwide fisheries industry.
And given the importance of maintaining American support for talks to liberalise trade in financial services, to expand the North American Free-Trade Agreement and to bring China into the World Trade Organisation, an upsurge of Japan-bashing and anti-import rhetoric in Washington would quickly affect the rest of the world.
EarthFirst, John Stanton's firm, claims to be at "the forefront of alternative energy sources, " according to its Web site, but still gets most of its revenue from moneylosing waste-disposal and biodiesel-import businesses, and recently filed to allow Laurus Capital to sell 76 million shares, whose proceeds would be used to retire convertible debt held by Laurus.
Nixon, who imposed an across-the-board import surcharge in 1971, was more protectionist than Mr Bush.
Import-export monopolies of the type seen under Suharto in Indonesia had been dismantled in the Philippines.
Having your tax lawyer act as the liaison for all communications can import attorney-client privilege.
"The sad fact is that, as things stand today, we could import foot-and-mouth again tomorrow, " he added.
First, Iran's merchant class, who are firm supporters of the clerical establishment, are losing lucrative import-export contracts.
Chrysler already has a tentative deal with China's Chery Automobile to import Chinese-built small cars to North America and Europe.
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