Hence the quandary for multinationals: importing will remain hard, but so will local production.
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But none of them sees local production and marketing as central to their future.
Buying regionally also avoids the dumping of food on a local market, with its effects on local production.
So it is a marker for future local production as well and a pivot point for business ecosystems.
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Chrysler appears ready to take a very different approach, with Mr Manley eyeing local production, perhaps jointly with not-yet-defined partners.
The next logical step is to take local production and show the world that Brazil is ready for its close-up.
Dr Hussein Mwinyi has suspended three top officials and stopped local production of the anti-retrovirals (ARVs) while the probe takes place.
Chrysler Group is interested in expanding the customer base for our award-winning Jeep vehicles, which can only be done by establishing local production.
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Despite the usual cold sweats foreigners have about India (nightmarish red tape, a cultural gap), Chinese executives agree that more local production will take place.
Hence the decision to go for local production and local channels.
For firms with no local production, tariffs are a whopping 62%.
Extra-budgetary funds have been mainly directed towards raising the standards of journalism and upgrading media skills as well as providing the necessary infrastructure to boost local production.
Growing local production has provided a natural springboard for exports.
Europe's television producers are spending more on local production.
The squeeze on the rouble comes just as the benefits to the Russian economy of the huge devaluation in 1998, which made imports plunge and pepped up local production, are wearing off.
All that is dead and gone now, the assets sold off repeatedly, staff reduced to near zero, local production uprooted, even the storefront, which had been in the center of town, sold.
He added that The Gambia was taking advantage of "appropriate technology" - to help its blind - such as building and equipping of secondary eye care centres, and the local production of eye drops.
"Encouraging investment by making a transparent policy (on hydrocarbons) that would cut the time spent in seeking regulatory approvals for exploration activities would be one of such efforts in increasing local production, " Mr. Moily said.
Finally, Athens has set out to expand their local production potential by offering exploration bids off their Western coast, as well as entering into discussions with Cyprus in a bid to set up Greece as a transport hub for natural gas from the Leviathan natural gas field.
Free-range production now looks to have the potential to reverse the sharp decline in local egg production.
They say the West also dumps second-hand clothes into Africa at prices that stifle local textile production.
Its programme of targets for 2012-17 already includes a commitment to promote and support local food production.
The increase in local programme production should enhance the appreciation of Caribbean cultural heritage, particularly among youngsters.
As a consequence of this, filmmakers are looking to local residents for production assistance.
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Esbjorn Wilmar, managing director of Infinergy said Isle of Wight councillors had "missed a huge opportunity to show leadership and make a considerable contribution to local renewable energy production".
There are some key benefits to keeping production local.
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In a clear attempt to appeal to far-right voters, Mr. Sarkozy said he would campaign around three key themes: cracking down on immigration, respecting France's borders and seeking to keep French production local.
But in late December, he said, local authorities indicated new production quotas might not be granted.
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