Not just that: it needed capital to finance a major production shift to the next generation of 64-byte DRAMs that will replace the current 16-byte model late next year.
With the weaker yen, some question whether Nissan will follow through with its plan to shift SUV production to the U.S. On April 12, the Nikkei business daily reported that the auto maker may delay the production shift.
But the duties did prompt much of the production to shift from China to Vietnam, where the duties don't apply.
If markets labor cannot respond to these shocks quickly, there will be unemployment as it takes time for production to shift between industries and for markets to clear.
Another plus is that Gerdau's Canadian and U.S. operations can shift production to respond to market demands.
If Omega is correct, Greenstein said, then companies could simply shift production overseas to avoid the first-sale doctrine.
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Daimler might well have concluded that, after acquiring Rolls and Bentley respectively, BMW and Volkswagen were right not to shift production to Germany.
Or they may work with their raw material suppliers to shift production to degraded lands, diverting pressure to develop virgin forests.
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Cadbury had planned to close the factory and shift production to Poland, but Kraft said it would be saved under their control.
For the majority of German workers, companies' growing willingness to shift production to wherever labour and capital costs are cheapest is a direct threat to their jobs.
Not to mention rising prices and wages in China, and technological developments in manufacturing, all of which are starting to encourage companies to shift production back home.
It would shift production from lower-cost to higher-cost regions.
Moreover, as the yuan strengthens against the dollar, some Chinese and US multinationals manufacturing there could shift production to lower cost countries, meaning the overall trade deficit would not be changed, the US China Business Council said.
In December workers at Mercedes's Sindelfingen factory near Stuttgart went on strike after the company said it would shift production of its C-Class cars to Alabama, so Mercedes promised to maintain employment at the plant until 2020.
According to the report, over a third of FDI inflows to developing countries now originate in other developing countries, a trend which is predicted to increase as emerging economies further industrialize and shift production down the value chain.
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Further appreciation will cut into a rising real estate asset bubble, and give Chinese consumers more buying power by encouraging Chinese manufacturers to shift production away from the export markets, to making and marketing goods and services for the domestic market.
This is already underway in China, where the WSJ recently reported rising wages are causing local companies to shift production outside the country, in some cases to Bangladesh, in an effort to keep costs down.
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The way the 206 model is set to live on in Eastern European factories is in line with the car maker's strategy to shift production to countries where labour costs are lower than in Britain and elsewhere in Western Europe, Mr Nagley observes.
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The business depends on exports for 50% of its business, and the other 50% may not be so secure given that a stronger yen and an aging population are leading some companies to shift production out of Japan, including the likes of Toyota Motor.
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It does not represent a wholesale shift of production from developed economies to China.
The company has also revealed plans to shift some production outside China to counteract future tariffs.
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There is more to this than the eradication of excess capacity or the shift of production inland.
Now the EU is trying to shift biofuel production from food crops to farm waste, algae and straw.
Thus, they asserted that the Department had no leverage to require the shift in production to the Michigan plant.
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But it seems we might have to shift more production out of Singapore and closer to our multinational customers.
If not, should Apple shift its production to another supplier that can make its products at 10% lower costs every year?
Falling production, and a shift away from natural gas fields to combined oil and gas deposits, means that this approach is no longer possible.
Honda's Chief Executive Takeo Fukui also said last week that the company may shift more production overseas to cushion the earnings impact of the yen's surge.
More critical is that the fact that Detroit's having to transition from selling big trucks and SUVs to cars, and you can't really shift your production capacity overnight when you have these huge factories.
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