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Emerging countries tend to benefit from imported technologies in the early stages of economic takeoff, but their growth rates generally slow as they reach higher levels of development.
But the GCC economies are also rife with structural problems that short-term economic packages will not address – bloated public sectors, heavy dependence on imported labor, and endemic unemployment, especially among young people, who make up a disproportionately large share of the population.
In fact, because most consumer goods are imported, it is unlikely that domestic companies will benefit at all.
Japan's dependence on imported Middle Eastern oil also demands that we understand what a war against Iraq might mean.
But a tariff is just another name for a tax that increases the costs of all imported goods.
If Trump increases tariffs on imported goods, some or all of America’s trading partners will most likely retaliate, by imposing tariffs on US exports.
In the embargo’s first year, companies importing Russian energy would be required to obtain licenses for the amount that they have imported to date.
Farmers in Texas and California need to stop growing rice, which should be imported from water-rich countries like Vietnam.
The engines that have propelled China’s growth over the last few decades – a huge supply of cheap labor, imported technology, and massive physical investment – are petering out.
Given that booming sales of imported baby-food products have exemplified the problem of profiteering, the $100 million in fines recently incurred by a half-dozen international baby-formula producers over food-safety issues sent a particularly strong message.
Reducing barriers to the Chinese market would benefit not only foreign producers, but also Chinese households and firms that use imported parts.
It seemed like a remarkable U-turn for Trump, who, until recently, was threatening the European Union with higher tariffs – and extolling the value of trade tariffs (which are essentially taxes on imported goods) more generally.
In 2005, the US imported 60% of the energy that it consumed.
Although many believe that the US-Israel alliance is the foundation of America’s Middle East policy, it was dependence on imported oil that motivated the US to establish a dominant military presence in the region after 1945.
In a completely flexible economy, this drop in measured GDP (and the concomitant increase in unemployment) could be avoided if the resources formerly employed in selling imported consumer goods could quickly be used to generate exports.
Given that Greece had a current-account deficit close to 10% of GDP in 2010, a drop in imported consumption goods of that magnitude seems to be needed before the country’s external debt can be stabilized.
It captured many of Japan’s export markets; it imported and adapted Japanese technologies; it employed similar planning methods; and the chaebols are an outgrowth of Japan’s zaibatsu corporate model.
Many services cannot readily be mechanized or imported – old people cannot be cared for by a robot or from abroad – while people increasingly pay others to perform tasks that they once did themselves, freeing up their own time for more productive work or leisure.
British policy turned India into a pioneer of Third World industrialization, with an economy increasingly based on domestic capital and entrepreneurship combined with imported technology.
Modern economic growth still depends in almost every advanced industrial country on imported energy (Norway is an exception).
The value of our homemade solutions increased to some who had always favored ideas imported from the East.
A German government study has estimated that, between 2010 and 2050, Germany could save more than €700 billion by relying on non-nuclear renewable energy instead of nuclear power or imported fossil fuels such as coal, gas, and oil.
Add steep tariffs on imported manufactured goods – rammed through over the angry protests of farmers and southern planters – and you have the policies that intelligently designed much of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America.
Savings could remain high, even as current consumption grows slowly, while the trade balance would be held in check by higher demand for imported capital goods.
Depreciation, moreover, may also not improve the competitiveness of Chinese goods either, as up to 40% of China’s exports nowadays are from manufacturing industries using imported parts and materials.
Just before the inauguration, he suggested that he might impose high tariffs on imported German cars, singling out BMW with particular relish.
Meanwhile, Iran’s currency is weakening, pricing imported goods out of many Iranians’ reach.
China’s need to satisfy its hunger for imported oil and other commodities has given it an international presence.
Both depend on imported oil for transport and on domestic coal for power generation.
Continued fighting and unresolved territorial claims have injected a new sense of urgency into discussions about Europe’s energy policy and, specifically, its dependence on imported energy.
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