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The rumored proposal in October 2002 by Jiang Zemin, China's former president, in a meeting with President Bush to withdraw Chinese missiles in exchange for a termination of US military sales to Taiwan is but one example.
In 1998, Chinese- and Indian-born engineers were running one-quarter of Silicon Valley’s high-technology businesses, which accounted for $17.8 billion in sales, and in 2005, foreign-born immigrants had helped start one in four American technology start-ups over the previous decade.
Some want that partnership to include trade in advanced weaponry—witness the recent push to remove the EU’s 15-year-old ban on arms sales to China.
In addition, those in favor of reviving EU-China arms trade see such sales as a stabilizer in bouts of political turbulence and are loath to let bad politics interfere with good business.
China apologists claim that the 1998 EU Code of Conduct on Arms Exports is sufficient to limit arms sales.
Nevertheless, their religious faith in privatization, unfettered markets, and monetarism led them to over-hasty asset sales, reckless deregulation, and savage deflation.
To that end, one of our most controversial proposals was what we called “pay or play”: a $12 billion pot would be financed by a surcharge levied on the overall sales of pharmaceutical companies that were not developing new drugs.
So, why not replace the tax on reported profits with a pay-or-play tax on a percentage of their overall sales?
Sales of Tata cars, for instance, are booming in many African countries.
The European Commission’s economic index is plummeting, purchasing managers indices are down and so are German retail sales.
As it stands, companies in the region devote about 0.4% of their sales, on average, to R&D – far less than the 1.9% average in OECD countries.
It is hard to imagine that manufacturers are not now postponing orders of capitals goods, and that new home sales in America are not dropping right now.
Thus, a firm’s total global profits would be taxed according to factors such as sales, employment, and resource usage – all of which reflect real economic activity – in each jurisdiction.
In addition to these ludicrous tax hikes (which also include substantial increases in sales taxes), the Tsipras government has agreed to pension cutbacks and fire sales of public assets.
Russian industrial exports primarily consist of armaments, with advanced aircraft accounting for more than half of sales.
BRAC’s community health workers, for example, work entirely on a micro-franchising basis, making their money from margins on sales of basic commodities like de-worming medication, anti-malarial drugs, and contraceptives.
Some of the sales in 2001, moreover, reflected purchases that would have been postponed until this year were it not for special offers inducing consumers to buy cars earlier than they otherwise would.
President Hu Jintao’s visit to Washington was a clear attempt to de-escalate tensions with the US over American arms sales to Taiwan, the renminbi’s exchange rate, and Obama’s meeting with the Dalai Lama.
The formula could include such factors as sales, payroll, and tangible assets, as in Canada and the United States, or value-added, adjusted to exclude imports in order to measure the value-added “produced” in each country.
Indeed, the surprising actions taken by Singapore and Switzerland were a direct response to this divergence, as was Denmark's decision to halt all sales of government securities, in order to push interest rates lower and counter upward pressure on the krone.
The Japanese government has therefore abandoned its plan for an increase in sales tax in 2017, and the IMF has ceased publishing any scenario in which the debt ratio falls to some defined “sustainable” level.
This includes ensuring that borrowers are accountable and that their liabilities are transparent; deleveraging municipal debt through asset sales and more transparent financing; and shifting the burden of resolving property-rights disputes from regulators to arbitrators and, eventually, to the judiciary.
The sharp drop in retail sales in the United States and Europe means fewer orders for the goods produced in Chinese factories.
Jeremy Stein (no relation to Kara Stein), until recently a governor of the US Federal Reserve System, has suggested that forced “fire sales” of assets are one important way that risks are transmitted.
As the world’s second largest exporter, the German boom was initially driven by foreign sales.
With gas increasingly scarce, Argentina defaulted on its gas-export contracts to Chile, and imposed an abusive and arbitrary tax on gas sales to its Andean neighbor.
Construction of new homes has fallen about 50%, while new home sales are down more than 60%, creating a supply glut that is driving prices down sharply – 10% so far and probably another 10% this year and in 2009.
In the longer term, the authorities must put in place stricter regulations to ensure that local-government infrastructure investments are sustainable and do not depend excessively on revenue from land sales.
In 1995, indeed, China bought over 20% of Russia’s total arms exports worth $2.7 to $ 3 billion, while in 1996 Russian arms sales soared to $3.5 billion, the largest portion of which China purchased.
Under present conditions, Moscow will increase its sales of state-of-the-art arms to China, including combat aircraft, long-range bombers, main battle tanks, destroyers, submarines as well as surface-to-air missiles.
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