Trade statistics look at value, not value-added, so they include a lot of double counting as parts move across borders and back.
This strategy has not added value to client accounts in the past and will not add value in the future.
One reason is that the U.S. is about the only major industrialized nation that does not also have a Value-Added Tax or national sales tax.
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But you will notice that this second, ongoing, value-added is not directly a function of the money amount that they invested in the original hardware or software.
But purchasing equipment does not automatically add anything to economic value-added, once you have given credit to the original manufacturer for his labour and profit in the item.
But their most visible reform, the introduction of a 10% value-added tax, has not been a wholly happy experience.
It added that it did not know the value of the sales it had lost to Kolon.
The new policy is designed to boost income for the government (though the value isn't known yet) and create better jobs, especially high-tech manufacturing jobs that produce value-added tax revenue--not low-cost textiles.
In Germany, for example, famous for its carmakers and capital-goods exporters, value added in manufacturing in 2002 was not much bigger than in Britain: just under 22% of GDP, down from 36% in 1970.
Ms Harney recently took delivery of a new report on enterprise strategy by a committee chaired by Eoin O'Driscoll, managing director of Aderra, which argues not only for more emphasis on high-value-added sectors and scientific research but also for greater efforts in marketing and promotion, in which Ireland has been weak.
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That tech brands top the list is not surprising, said Maggie Taylor, CEO of Added Value North America.
For disposable technology, the added cost and effort might not have as much value.
"If you liken it to a household account, that's not a bad mortgage to house value ratio, " Mr Kershaw added.
Innovative technologies and strategic BI solutions, which go beyond just game-day analytics to manage big data on mobile platforms and which can be delivered on the premises or in the cloud, can not only transform their operations but also continue to deliver value-added products and services, improving the overall fan experience.
Not only did she exceed our expectations, but she added tremendous value to the team.
Value-added metrics wind up punishing perfectly good but not spectacular schools with above-average student bodies.
Business spirits are low and the black economy untamed (a decision this week to raise value-added tax to a stonking 27% will not help).
But the key to economic growth is not just the low cost of production, it's the value added--the innovation, design or better architecture, or the sheer intangible of exciting fashion.
The country has been trying, unsuccessfully, to export manufactured and value-added goods abroad for nearly 10 years now and not only to China.
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She added that "a code that is not being followed is of little value".
It may not be chat (unless a Hangout element is added) but it could be value-added content, discovery or rewards.
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"Free ISPs are not going to be just a flash in the pan if they can create value-added services" and can keep surfers coming back to their websites, says Matthew McGarvey, regional Internet analyst for International Data Corp. in Hong Kong.
But this is rarely shared with parents and often not even with school governors, who might therefore read next year's national "value added" tables with considerable interest.
It adds that another option is to mitigate the impact of high food prices by reducing other taxes, including Value Added Tax, but given the government's poor finances this option is not a serious one.
"In some situations, the cost to the airline in ensuring a passenger is not left stranded after a 24-hour delay could be four times the ticket value, " he added.
The key to achieving true business value, Wang added, lies in the ability of a company to exploit its cloud apps not just within a narrow departmental silo but across functional units enterprise-wide.
The borrowing is not the problem: "Disturbia" borrowed an entire plot from "Rear Window, " but added value that young audiences responded to.
It is not hard to see demand growth being dragged down at the start of next year by a planned rise in value-added tax in Germany and budgetary tightening in Italy.
Mauldin, despairingly, envisions a Value Added Tax as the desperate alternative to Depression 2.0 which he predicts is the consequence of not getting the deficit under control (something which, of course, The Deal does not really do).
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