Foreign investment is also declining, and local production is paralyzed, necessitating expensive imports.

So for now, the world must hope that Americans continue gorging on foreign imports.

It is possible that, before the end of the decade, China s current account surplus will move into deficit, as the country imports more than it exports and spends its foreign investment income on imports rather than on foreign securities.

Like guest workers, outsourcing imports labor services, but the foreign workers stay in their own backyards.

Competition from foreign firms is everywhere through imports, inward FDI and non equity forms of participation.

And lowering administrative barriers to imports might redirect more spending toward foreign goods than the authorities intend.

Agricultural policy describes a set of laws relating to domestic agriculture and imports of foreign agricultural products.

Chapter 4. Finance measures Measures that regulate access to and the cost of foreign exchange for imports and define the terms of payment.

US consumers buy imports rather than American made goods because imports are cheaper.

America absorbs Chinese imports, pays China in dollars, and China holds dollars, amassing 2.5 trillion in foreign exchange reserves, much of it held in US Treasury securities.

(c) Imports exports

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Mining equipment imports

(b) Unusually high imports in 2003, compensating for unusually low imports in previous year

The IMF warns about Dutch disease problems, when an influx of foreign exchange drives up the local currency s exchange rate, making it difficult to create jobs in the export sector or to protect jobs against an onslaught of cheaper foreign imports.

But the eurozone can increase its inflow of foreign capital only if it has a current account deficit, i.e., if it increases its imports relative to its exports.

As a result, the total value of imports is expected to exceed 10 trillion in only two years, providing lucrative investment opportunities and broader markets to foreign investors.

Now, it imports rice.

Because of this, the food of the nobility was more prone to foreign influence than the cuisine of the poor it was dependent on exotic spices and expensive imports.

While US imports are declining sharply, German imports are holding up without any economic stimulus plan.

In other words, the very policy that was supposed to achieve greater energy security is in fact likely to hike prices and lead to greater reliance on foreign energy imports.

Bahrain depends heavily on food imports to feed its growing population it relies heavily on meat imports from Australia and also imports 75 of its total fruit consumption needs.

Mozambique, for example, imports 60 of its wheat consumption, and Egypt imports 50 of its food supplies.

China imports oil from Sudan, and Sudan imports low cost items as well as armaments from China.

Japan imports oranges from California.

The EU already accounts for almost 20 of US imports, and the US for 11 of EU imports.

It earned the highest sovereign credit rating in Africa and has stockpiled foreign exchange reserves (over 7 billion in 2005 2006) amounting to almost two and a half years of current imports.

Imports of arms and related material

The US alone imports 1.5 million barrels a day from West Africa, the same amount it imports from Saudi Arabia.

Reducing the cost of imports is significant because China imports a wide range of consumer goods, equipment, and raw materials.

The explanation for this divided world is that countries like Greece, Spain, and the US, which experienced a long boom financed by huge capital imports, now face growing difficulties in finding foreign finance.

In addition, some setbacks have been experienced, and Malawi has lost some of its ability to pay for imports due to a general shortage of foreign exchange, as investment fell 23 in 2009.

Reducing the cost of imports is significant because China imports a wide range of consumer goods, equipment, and raw materials. Indeed, China s total annual imports amount to roughly 1.4 trillion, or nearly 40 of GDP.

As incomes in China grow, imports from other low or middle income countries rise faster than imports from high wage countries.

Emergency support from a few friendly governments has so far limited the erosion of Egypt s foreign currency reserves at a time of mediocre tourism earnings and growing imports of food and other basic necessities.

Manufactured imports into Japan have increased considerably.

Cheap imports ameliorate the effects of wage stagnation.

Russia actually did block imports of Monsanto corn.

The UK imports 40 of its food supplies.

Other imports include chemicals, manufactured goods, and petroleum.

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This requires, first and foremost, that China build a national value chain and elevate its manufacturing sector, which currently depends excessively on foreign research and development, imports of raw materials and semi finished parts, and external demand.

Renewable energy and energy efficiency were cited by many Parties as a means of reducing not only the GHG emissions but also their reliance on imports, consequently saving precious foreign currency for other more needed development purposes.

During those years, the rise in the volume of net imports just balanced the effect of the dollar s fall on the total cost of imports.

When a country s economic growth slows, it imports less from other countries, thereby reducing those countries growth rates, and causing them, too, to reduce imports.