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Given huge declines in industrial profit growth (from 12.2% in 2013 to 3.3% last year) and in local-government revenues from land
sales
(which fell by 37% in 2014), there is considerable anxiety that today's deflationary cycle could trigger corporate and local-government debt crises.
Clean tech is maturing and adopting proven management practices in operations, marketing, sales, and distribution.
Retail
sales
and new car registrations are up.
Arms
sales
to Taiwan, Tibetan activism, and “color revolutions” of various kinds are all sponsored by the US and other Western powers, and are aimed at weakening China.
The West also armed the entire region through hundreds of billions of dollars in weapons
sales.
In other words, purchases are more desirable than
sales
(which entail getting rid of something that you could otherwise use for yourself).
Imports (purchases) are seen as bad, and exports (sales) are considered good.
In the US Congress, Democrats and Republicans alike have promised to end weapons
sales
to Saudi Arabia and impose sanctions if its government is shown to have murdered Khashoggi.
Since 2015, China has taken the lead in e-commerce worldwide, with online purchases accounting for 18% of total retail sales, compared to just 8% in the US.
Likewise, traditional markets and street stalls pay no
sales
taxes.
Arming the ElephantNEW DELHI – The rise in US arms
sales
to India is being widely cited as evidence of the two countries’ deepening defense relationship.
Does the recently issued Joint Declaration on Defense Cooperation, which establishes intent to move beyond weapons
sales
to the co-production of military hardware,mark a turning point, or is it merely a contrivance to placate India?
With US military spending slowing and other export markets remaining tight, American defense firms are eager to expand
sales
to India, which is now the world’s largest arms importer.
Third, in the run-up to the East Asia Summit, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced that she would move to relax her country’s long-standing prohibition on uranium
sales
to India while it remained outside the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
We determined that an effective market-entry reward could be funded by small levies on the
sales
of the other top-50 pharmaceutical firms that are not carrying their weight.
Today, the treaty covers 90% of the world’s population and has contributed to a significant decline in
sales
for global tobacco corporations.
We at the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology used the law to stop Monsanto’s commercialization of Bt cotton in 1999, which is why approval was not granted for commercial
sales
until 2002.
In fact, automakers in Asia and Europe are probably ecstatic at the prospect of increased
sales.
But these “entrepreneurs” are not building real companies, and, in these sales, the entrepreneurs are being hired; their companies are not being bought.
Gazprom’s
sales
in Russia are often disguised as murky barter deals.
The second step would be to shift the corporate tax base from profits reported to have been earned in a country to
sales
made and wages paid in that country.
Economists who blithely assume that pre-2008 automobile
sales
are “normal,” because Americans “need” their cars, misunderstand the nature of the automobile market.
Last year,
sales
of Sovaldi and Harvoni – another drug the company sells for $94,000 – amounted to $12.4 billion.
Sachs estimates that the private sector spent less than $500 million on research and development to develop Sovaldi – an amount that Gilead was able to recoup in a few weeks of
sales.
Violent conflict is fed and its effects worsened by massive
sales
of arms by Western governments to developing countries.
So, rather than hire in a panic at the first sign of recovery, as they did in the past, for fear that they will be unable to do so later and lose sales, firms today would rather ensure that the recovery is well established before hiring.
The ratio of Chinese monthly retail
sales
to industrial production, while erratic, has been slowly trending higher since 2008, and there appears to have been another uptick in consumption recently.
At the beginning of this century, Chinese- and Indian-born engineers were running one-quarter of Silicon Valley’s technology businesses, which accounted for $17.8 billion in sales; and, in 2005, immigrants had helped to start one-quarter of all US technology start-ups during the previous decade.
The EU also collects an import
sales
tax at the rate of value-added tax for systemic reasons.
The
sales
technique should be based on fiscal and regulatory concepts and be expressed in legal and financial jargon, which only experts can do.
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