Thanks to Japanese car producers, American manufacturers learned to produce more efficiently and competitively.

It is in a country s interest to lower its import barriers so that it has cheaper access to goods and services that it cannot produce competitively.

For example, the US wage insurance program is confined to manufacturing workers over age 50 who are in competitively vulnerable industries and are deemed by the Secretary of Labor to have nontransferable skills.

In most developing countries, financial service providers are not yet in a position to use modern credit risk management techniques to assess borrowers' risk and thus competitively provide capital, particularly trade finance, to enterprises.

And public private partnerships between drug developers, basic researchers, and patient groups that share information pre competitively (that is, with no or limited patent filings) are an increasingly popular way to translate scientific findings into potentially meaningful clinical benefits.

(2) It was then decided to change the technology and use polypropylene instead. An order was placed with the firm Indelpro S.A. to supply this material. A competitively priced proposal was received (1,200 dollars per tonne), but the supplier cancelled it upon learning that the destination was Cuba.