Nearly half of the clothing in America's closets is made in China, and almost all of the rest is made in other foreign countries.
In fact, according to this study by Matt Slaughter, over 93 percent of the sales of U.S. foreign affiliates are made in the host or other foreign countries.
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America also borrows in the currency other countries most want to hold in their own foreign-exchange reserves.
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In recent years, there has been concern that foreign investment in the United States is waning, partially from protectionist sentiment and partially from changes in U.S. regulations and accounting procedures that might induce foreign firms to set up operations in other countries.
But if we lose that manufacturing base, we're going to be in a very non-competitive with other foreign countries.
Michael Spence, another Nobel prize-winning economist, in a recent article in Foreign Affairs agrees that technology is hitting jobs in America and other rich countries, but argues that globalisation is the more potent factor.
Most of the other foreign students in Japan are also from Asian countries.
But the U.S. doesn't prevent foreign firms operating in Sudan or other sanctioned countries from seeking access to U.S. capital markets, arguing it would trigger a backlash among its trading partners and could violate its international obligations.
Falling consumption dashes hopes around the world that Chinese consumers will be buying foreign products and thereby stimulating growth in other countries.
While America is still providing the overwhelming majority of the 152, 000 foreign troops in Iraq, the number of other countries sending their forces to help in peacekeeping and reconstruction has grown to more than 30.
But Dino Kos, a former chief of markets at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York who now works for Portales Partners, a research firm, notes that the yuan does not meet one of the most basic requirements of a reserve currency: other countries cannot use it to intervene in foreign-exchange markets because it is not freely convertible.
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This means many potential foreign-born entrepreneurs would have to start businesses in other countries or not start them at all.
Also, some Eastern European countries which have a high level of debt denominated in other foreign currencies and have overvalued currencies will face challenges.
Plunkett Research points to the rise in outsourcing cost in places such as China which since its business and economic reforms were launched in 1978, has been a bigger beneficiary of foreign investment than most other countries.
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For a start, the Chinese government has a foreign-policy doctrine of not interfering in the internal affairs of other countries.
Last year they invested some DM150 billion in other countries (by contrast, Germany attracted a mere DM35 billion in foreign direct investment).
From his perspective, foreign direct investment in Africa is a big plus, especially when other emerging countries have increased their economies by attracting investment.
Russia, like other oil-rich countries in the Middle East and Latin America, has become increasingly hostile to foreign investment in the oil sector in recent years.
On the other side of the coin were the operatives, whose talent was spotting potential informants and spies in foreign countries, and developing these assets into reliable sources of information.
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Speaking to Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung newspaper, Mr Frieden acknowledged that other countries were increasingly demanding more information on what their citizens were doing with their money in foreign banks.
Perhaps the manufacturing base, small and largely foreign-owned in Britain, seems a less obvious candidate for state support than it does in other countries.
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When it comes to courting foreign investors, the report suggests that federal trade-promotion offices are no match for their counterparts in other countries.
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But, at the very least, the circumstantial evidence suggests foreign investors should watch each other just as closely as they watch the firms and countries they invest in.
Foreign investors could make inaccurate assumptions based on funding arrangements that have worked well in their home countries or other emerging markets and, in turn, ignore that India is unique in its market demands, talent supply, and business culture.
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