The latest data showed the total volume of orders declined for the fourth successive quarter, with the increase in overseas sales failing to outweigh the drop in the domestic market.
Mr. MOON: ...what it made in sales for the whole year figures out to be more than the gross domestic products of Sweden, Taiwan, and Indonesia, so it's making a lot of money.
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In an attempt to offset the decline in foreign sales, India has been trying to boost its domestic consumption to sustain growth.
It permitted both repayable direct state aid (the European approach) covering up to a third of all development costs, known as launch aid, and indirect state aid (the American approach) if limited to 3% of the domestic industry's sales volume.
We see secular weakness from the Japanese OEMs due to strong smart phone sales from Apple, Samsung and HTC in the domestic market.
Partly thanks to this hit, French films grabbed a 63% share of all domestic ticket sales in the first four months of 2008, next to 30% for Hollywood's output.
It is also counting on its new Colt Plus subcompact model to stem the decline in domestic sales.
Still, the upbeat domestic sales figures for the first month of the new business year are likely to fan optimism that Japanese car makers will continue to regain sales momentum after the disruptions caused by last year's Asian natural disasters, which also included flooding in Thailand.
The driving force of a Starbucks bounce-back will have to come from resurgence in same-store domestic sales since surveys show that many European coffee drinkers remain resistant to the Seattle-based juggernaut.
But the obstacles to international sales are much greater than to domestic ones.
In the past five years, the Chinese art market ranked as the fastest-growing in the world, as well as the most important emerging market in terms of the size of its domestic sales, according to a report by TEFAF Maastricht.
Honda said it plans to boost domestic sales 21% to 710, 000 vehicles in the current fiscal year ending in March 2013.
The other, more credible option is to make domestic gas sales more attractive through price reforms.
Rather than wait for domestic sales to pick up, Toshiba and Matsushita have gone on the offensive.
While both foreign and domestic sports brands make the bulk of their sales from selling to franchises and wholesalers in trade fairs months before they are sold, Western sports brands have better ties with the shops that sell their products.
Sales in March by Chinese domestic brands rose 14 percent to 688, 000 vehicles, the group said.
So even as prospects for arms sales in the Middle East are receding, domestic demand for high-end military systems looks likely to rise.
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But the days of robust defense increases and big new program starts are over, so the only way contractors will be able to generate sizable gains in the military space going forward will be either by increasing overseas sales or stealing domestic market share from competitors.
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And the outlook for increased domestic sales of the kind of high-end weapons the defense industry has traditionally preferred to build is becoming brighter.
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The sales forecast, although very modest, takes into account the problems that the automaker is likely to face in the domestic market as well as in China.
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The stake sales are crucial to the government's plan to reduce the budget deficit to 4.8% of gross domestic product in the next fiscal year that begins April, from 5.2% this year.
In total, the number of tickets sold so far for summer is down for domestic trips, but sales have been up by an equal number of tickets to Europe, the Caribbean and Latin America, according to Airlines Reporting Corp.
The bottoming of growth in China appeared to stem from domestic and foreign factors, as retail sales, investment, and export growth all improved.
The aim is for the company in North America to be able to break even in a domestic market with annual sales of 10m vehicles.
Perhaps the market is assuming US sales will quickly return as the domestic economy steadily improves, but that is an assumption we are not willing to concede.
Apple hasn't been able to open its trademark stores because of requirements that foreign retailers purchase 30% of the value of India sales from domestic suppliers unmanageable in a country with virtually no electronics manufacturing.
Since sweeping to power in 2009, the ruling Democratic Party of Japan has flip-flopped on its own Okinawa base policy, and the new agreement underscores the government's failure to garner support for its key domestic policies, which also include a sales tax and efforts to join a regional trade agreement.
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