In truth, the arrival of foreign goods to U.S. ports is the ultimate compliment from clothes-makers, car manufacturers, and commodity extractors around the world.
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Additionally, Brazilian businesses have been given until the end of April to submit lists of foreign goods that they deem to be competing unfairly with Brazilian goods on the domestic market, an indicator that additional tariffs may be forthcoming.
Imports of foreign consumer goods grew rapidly in both 1995 (27%) and 1996 (21%).
When these mature industries are foreign, supporters of the infant industry argument call for tariffs, a tax on foreign goods, to force the foreign price above the already higher price of the infant domestic goods.
Considered alone, the increase in imports was 9.8%, making the net contribution of foreign trade in goods and services a negative 4.1%.
Though many of the foreign consumer goods sold in Cuba -- Coca-Cola, for example -- are made in Mexico and Canada, plenty come from the U.S. via Mexico, the Dominican Republic and other Caribbean islands.
Though many of the foreign consumer goods sold in Cuba -- Coca-Cola, for example -- are made in Mexico and Canada, plenty come from the U.S. via Mexico, the Dominican Republic and various Caribbean islands.
She was also frustrated with the way foreign products are fraudulently sold as American made goods because of lax law enforcement and how foreign made products are replacing American made goods.
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It means that the buying power of British citizens for foreign goods is crushed.
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Currently, our exporters and foreign consumers of these goods have to comply with two different, conflicting set of standards.
Economist Eduardo Marty told the BBC that currency restrictions had been extended to all economic activities, from the export of goods to foreign travel.
Yet the commission's idea of threatening to exclude tenders that contain more than 50% of goods and services from foreign countries not covered by GPA or other accords still looks unwise.
Even an import duty of up to 40% on foreign luxury goods into India has not kept most Western luxury retailers out of the market.
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Because while a stronger yuan increases the dollar price of Chinese goods, it also lowers the yuan price of foreign raw material, allowing Chinese manufacturers to keep a lid on the price of their finished goods.
But holding a portion of one's wealth in a basket of foreign currencies is advisable, he says, as a portion of one's consumption over time comes from foreign goods produced both in developed and emerging markets.
The shipping container has done this again over the past 50 years: there is almost no level of legal or tax trade protection that could have stopped foreign goods getting ever cheaper as the costs of hauling things from country to country fell ever lower.
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However, at the same time charity experts say it often takes the efforts of several nonprofits to collect, move and distribute the same batch of goods to locations domestic and foreign.
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The study found that America's appetite for foreign goods is so much stronger than the rest of the world's desire for American goods that even if the other rich countries raised their growth rates to match America's, they would still sell more to America than it would sell to them.
To achieve price stability, it would require the Fed to monitor a full range of asset prices including not only goods and services, but also the price of gold and the foreign exchange value of the dollar.
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But the hefty depreciation of around a quarter in sterling's trade-weighted value since mid-2007 will still bolster the economy by making British producers of tradable goods and services more competitive both in foreign markets and at home.
Slowing consumption, of course, will tend to lessen the demand for foreign goods over time.
Agricultural exports that used to be the engine of the economy have shriveled, and foreign currency to import goods is hard to come by.
Such solutions deal with only a few of "thousands of related issues, " Upson said, including how to handle product sales to American consumers that take place on American company-owned servers based in foreign countries and how to tax the sale of digital goods and intellectual property such as software and computer-generated music.
Nicholas Lardy of the Brookings Institution notes another reason for the outflows: a huge increase in trade credit extended to foreign (mainly South-East Asian) buyers of Chinese goods.
Underscoring that, it is entering into a 50-50 partnership with Tata despite the recent easing of India's convoluted investment rules that now allow for 100% foreign ownership of stores that sell just a single brand of goods.
When the rise of the foreign industry is due to it becoming more efficient, producing more goods with the same resources, both nations gain.
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Since the United States is Colombia's largest trading partner, the stalled ratification might hamper further increase in foreign investment, partially based on the expectations of better market access for Colombian goods.
That not only makes Japanese goods more affordable to foreign buyers, but also boosts the earnings of Japanese firms that rely on foreign sales.
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Beijing also promised to lower duties on capital goods imported by foreign joint ventures, acknowledging that the previous removal of tax breaks had hurt investment.
Foreign firms, even in infrastructure and consumer goods, also hold back, unsure of the politics.
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