The US does have an internal sugar price two to three times the world price.
Solyndra cited the falling world price of solar panels as the reason for closing down the firm.
And once the supply lines into Texas get reversed, you could see the world price of gas falling.
But it requires us to pay the world price to attract world-class talent and other kinds of bananas.
The fuel, which sells at well below the world price, is heavily subsidised.
The gap between India's gold price and the world price narrowed to 17%.
Each week seems to bring an announcement of a new drug, device or high-end treatment - with developed-world price tags to match.
In the beautiful, but poor, Asturias region in north-western Spain, the subsidy underwrites production of coal at seven times the world price.
This was possible because a protected market allowed Caribbean exporters to sell sugar to Europe at more than three times the world price.
Such arguments ignore the fact that the crude-oil market is global: no American firm is selling its crude any lower than the world price.
One is of a glut: the world price of soya has fallen by 40% from its March peak, mainly because of lower demand in China.
The US has high import tariffs on sugar, so high in fact that the internal to the US price of sugar is double the world price.
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They may use that wiggle room to raise the cost of petrol, frozen for the past six years despite big rises in the world price of oil.
Farmers were frequently not paid the full world price for their crops, because governments were determined to keep local prices low in order to relieve hard-pressed consumers.
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No, really, Lifesavers are now made in Canada because they can buy sugar at that lower world price and then import the candy without paying the sugar duty.
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In the past week the world price of corn has increased more than 30%, according to Maximo Torero, a director of markets, trade and institutions at the International Food Policy Research Institute.
If the world price of minerals surged, say, but the prices of farm products fell, Australia's economy would boom, maybe justifying higher interest rates, while New Zealand's sank, creating a need for lower rates.
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There is nothing illegal about this, but Kenyans who don't grow their own are now paying 50% more for their staple food than they were a year ago, and double the world price, says Robert Shaw, a local economist.
At times in the Delta MEND's insurgency was so intense that it shut in as much as a third of Nigeria's oil production, pushing up the world price of crude and enfeebling the Nigerian government, which depends on oil for about 80% of its revenues.
The majority of forecasters expect it to continue to be weak - because they don't think there's much chance of a rapid economic recovery which pushes up domestic prices or wages, and because they think the new sources of energy coming on stream in the US and elsewhere will help keep a lid on the world price of oil and gas.
It set a new world record price for a work by a living artist.
These subsidies push down the world market price, hurting, among others, 11m cotton producers in West Africa.
Many economic studies have cited ethanol production as the single most important driver of recent world food price increases.
So what would happen to the world oil price if a U.S. president announced a radically new domestic production policy?
The rising world oil price brought a return to economic growth in Venezuela in 2011 after two years of recession.
And the economy is particularly vulnerable to the unpredictable world oil price.
But this still commits the party to raising fuel duties year by year in line with inflation, no matter how high the world oil price rises.
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