It provides support for arguments by U.S. companies that they face a competitive disadvantage in the U.S. marketplace, since most non-U.S. multinationals except Japan already have lower taxes before the added bonus of an effective tax rate reduction when they establish an American subsidiary.

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They are aiming to establish the tidal flow rate at various depths in order to assess the river's potential to generate electricity.

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They would not claim the ability to set the right price for an automobile, but they somehow believe that they can establish the proper interest rate for a highly complex economy in a globally integrated environment.

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Euribor was set up by the European Banking Federation in 1999 to establish a new interbank reference rate within what is now the 17-country currency union.

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Clinton's support of the Internet Tax Freedom Act currently before Congress puts him at odds with the nation's governors, who want to establish a single sales tax rate for online shopping.

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Scientists in the Netherlands are now trying to establish a reliable method of measuring this rate.

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Even a very low tax rate would constitute an infringement, and it would not be possible to establish a threshold of insignificance.

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"Every airline is a country that gets to establish the value of their currency, and some provide a better rate of exchange than others, " said Mr. Sorensen, whose firm has been tracking airline seat availability for the past three years.

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Eswar Prasad, a professor of trade policy at Cornell University, agrees with Paulson that the U.S. should work to help China establish a sound financial system instead of narrowly focusing on the exchange rate between the yuan and the dollar.

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