Even the successful exporters are increasingly using imported materials or outsourcing much of their production.
The wide array of imported construction materials, household goods and food are then loaded onto rows of waiting trucks.
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But this could indicate that China's trade surplus will continue for just as long as inventories of imported raw materials and components are being liquidated.
With a higher dollar value transaction for these imported raw materials, this makes the value of imports that much greater and further increases the trade imbalance.
Even exports, which might have received a boost from the weakened rupiah, have been crippled by manufacturers' dependence on relatively expensive imported raw materials and a credit crunch that has tied their hands.
Many factories operate at half capacity because strict currency controls make it hard for them to pay for imported parts and materials.
Many Venezuelan factories operate at half capacity because strict currency controls make it hard for them to pay for imported parts and materials.
He committed to waive taxes on imported furnishings and building materials for the hotel.
Investors, both domestic and foreign, are squeezed by costlier imported equipment and raw materials.
Although Seddon Atkinson has been able to cut its costs and prices a bit in sterling terms, because around 25% of its materials are imported from the euro area, its European rivals have enjoyed an even greater advantage.
To meet a high domestic demand, more raw materials may be imported to the United States.
Signatories to this UNESCO treaty agree not to impose customs duties on certain educational, scientific, and cultural materials that are imported.
Much of that can be blamed on domestic demand for imported goods and higher cost of raw materials, like iron ore.
Virtually everything, even basic building materials, still has to be imported.
It could change ranges more quickly than rivals who imported, and was the first to bring innovative materials such as wrinkle-free fabric to the British public.
His grandfather, he says, was a host of the country's reformist leader, King Amanullah Khan, after it gained independence from the British in 1919, and imported fuel, cooking oil, foods, technical equipment and construction materials from Iran and the Soviet Union.
At the moment, about 80% of the materials and services involved in constructing an offshore wind farm are imported.
Not only has China imported increasing quantities of coal and metals from Australia, but its appetite for raw materials has sharply pushed up global commodity prices.
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