Cotton subsidies, for example, may be less than US$5 billion a year, but they cost West African cotton producers US$150 million a year – equal to about 10% of their total merchandise exports.

例如，每年的棉花补贴也许低于50亿美元，但每年却给西非棉花生产国带来了1.5亿美元的损失，这相当于其商品出口总额的10％。

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In contrast, under the perpetual inventory method of accounting for merchandise inventory and the cost of merchandise sold accounts.

相反，在永续盘存法下，每一笔商品购买和销售业务都必须登记在存货和商品销售成本账户中。

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The cost of merchandise sold is subtracted from sales to arrive at gross profit.

在销货业务发生时，对于已出售的商品成本不作分录。

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The gross profit margin (excluding occupancy expense as a cost of the merchandise) edged up a percentage point, to 56%, in 1998, but sales growth slowed, to 6% from 14%.

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Boutiques.com currently has the same business model used by Like.com, where merchants pay if shoppers end up purchasing the goods on other sites, or sometimes pay a small cost for each time a shopper clicked on their merchandise to learn more.

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It features only licensed products (those that outside manufacturers pay an average royalty of 8.7% of the wholesale cost to produce), and thus does not include merchandise manufactured by the property owner.

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