More companies, he reckons, are starting to realise that if they can move goods through a supply chain faster and more efficiently, the effect on their performance can be profound, going well beyond being able to keep stocks low.
When a communications system becomes a new consumer service, it benefits society: businesses can offer their goods and consumers can express their opinions simultaneously, giving everyone more choice.
It means investing in transportation and communication networks that can move goods and information as fast as possible.
However, as incomes in urban China have increased multifold, many people can afford goods and services previously unavailable to them.
The trick, he says, is to harness material efficiency so people can enjoy goods that are equivalent or almost equivalent.
We will upgrade our transportation and communication networks so you can move goods and information more quickly and more cheaply.
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Free trade makes us wealthier by increasing the number of people with whom we can exchange goods and services at low cost.
Facebook members can buy goods on Facebook, find deals tailored for a particular time or place, and use virtual currency to pay for games and apps.
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We also need to make sure that America can move goods and information as fast as any of our competitors, whether on the road or online.
It is also a huge expanding market where America then can sell goods and services and so we think China being prosperous and secure is a positive.
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Huge multinational companies, firms you would think should know better, continue to get ensnarled by the seven main U.S. federal agencies that regulate how and where they can ship goods.
But it also requires us to build world-class transportation and communications networks, so that any company can move goods and sell products all around the world as quickly and efficiently as possible.
In several sectors, ranging from medical and electrical equipment to pharmaceuticals, the two sides have agreed that European organisations can test goods to American standards on behalf of American testing organisations, and vice versa.
But we also think that it is important for us to explore new mechanisms so that we can have goods and services, and economic development, and the ability of people to start their own businesses, and to grow the economy and provide opportunity within Gaza.
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We believe this is going to be good for the United States, for the world, as well as for Russia, because it will provide increased opportunities for markets in which we can sell goods and products and services, as well as purchase good, products and services without some of the traditional barriers.
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So now, let's take half of the savings that we were spending on war and let's use it to put people back to work rebuilding schools, rebuilding bridges, rebuilding roads, improving our airport systems, improving our ports so that we can move goods and services that will make our economy strong not just now, but in the future.
Polluting factories have been closed down, trucks have been forbidden to drive on the roads, raw materials can't be brought in, and goods can't be carried out.
You can think of trade as a machine (with no running costs or depreciation): goods you can make cheaply go in at one end, and goods that would cost you a lot more to make come out at the other.
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That McGuffin is that governments, whether led by Republicans or Democrats, can effectively provide goods and services.
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On an iPhone, for example, you can buy digital goods like music or movies at the iTunes store.
But Matsunaga argues household goods can be esthetically pleasing and still attract attention.
"It will be hard work for Tengku Razaleigh, but he can deliver the goods, " says Razaleigh associate Rais Yatim.
So long as you can count final goods, unmeasured improvements in the supply of intermediate services will succeed in raising measured productivity.
Importers need permission from a magistrate before they can pay for goods and Cypress is heavily dependent on both food and fuel imports.
For the first time, players can purchase virtual goods in the games using their mobile phone no credit cards or complex payment systems involved.
Pakistani officials say their country can supply consumer goods and car components at competitive prices, but punishing tariffs make them far too expensive in India.
Bureaucrats want to regulate how much product manufacturers can produce, whom the owners can hire as workers, and at what price they can sell their goods.
Further north, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, hand-knotted carpets are made and sent to showrooms in the U.S. Such goods can be found, says Washington D.
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