One traditional fix is tariffs and subsidies, which can offset an uncompetitive exchange rate.
Stuck with old designs and uncompetitive vehicles, dealers limped along as the division's sales slumped.
Three layers of fees virtually guarantee that the net returns will be uncompetitive to the pensions.
It may take a while for the uncompetitive pricing to take its toll in customer departures.
Our main exports, tea, rubber, cocoa and garments, all became uncompetitive in the world market.
The editorial points out that not all agriculture will be uncompetitive under free trade.
Unfortunately, Saturn's parent (GM) proceeded to neglect its offspring's new-product portfolio and Saturn cars became uncompetitive.
Obama wants to retain our current 35% tax rate, which has become internationally uncompetitive.
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People who don't like currency boards say that Argentina's "artificially strong" peso has left it uncompetitive.
The Office of Fair Trading is investigating the business, which it says may be uncompetitive.
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Both may raise the banks' borrowing costs and make some of their global businesses uncompetitive.
And McCarthy also revealed the frustrations of playing in a Portuguese league that was uncompetitive.
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Pre-crisis inflows set off property and wage booms, leaving behind uncompetitive economies when they receded.
They fear that high costs, high taxes and onerous regulations are making the province uncompetitive.
The lack of world-class competition diminishes the league's appeal and the pay is uncompetitive.
High transport costs have made them uncompetitive, and their land is not well-suited to other crops.
Until recently Brazilians worried that a rapidly strengthening real was making their exports uncompetitive.
This did inspire confidence, but as the dollar rose in value, Egyptian exports grew uncompetitive.
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They might succeed, in which case Europe's postal system will continue on its uncompetitive way.
Dwindling gates because of the uncompetitive nature of the SPL, now dominated completely by Celtic and Rangers.
They say that the move will make mining companies globally uncompetitive and will affect growth and employment.
American companies, such as ExxonMobil would be effectively rendered uncompetitive against foreign owned oil and gas companies.
The car was uncompetitive and Schumacher was out-paced for much of the year by team-mate Nico Rosberg.
Realizing that paying interest rates of up to 17.5% risked making Incepta uncompetitive, Abdul tapped Islamic finance.
We already have the highest corporate tax rate in the developed world making our corporations uncompetitive globally.
In the less productive east, this has caused wages to rise too fast, making many industries uncompetitive.
Manufacturing is almost entirely open to 100% foreign ownership, but electricity transmission remains highly restricted and thus uncompetitive.
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Today's dividend yield is uncompetitive with municipal paper and low-grade corporates and is subject to cutbacks like GE's.
As Japan moved into higher-value exports, rising productivity pushed up wages, making old industries, such as textiles, uncompetitive.
Privatizations in basic industries were undoing an arrangement by which freight shippers simply passed along uncompetitive rail rates to the government.
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