Many home buyers have been shut out of the property market on the mainland because of government steps to cool the domestic property market for fear that surging housing prices could hurt social stability.

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Under rules of the World Trade Organization, a country can apply anti-dumping import tariffs when it can prove that imported goods were sold at below-market prices and caused damage to domestic industry.

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However, the domestic market for natural gas will soon be saturated with such high levels of production and low domestic prices.

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The combination of a weakening labour market, slipping house prices, tighter credit and higher fuel costs will weigh on domestic spending.

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Despite the pending lifting of the grain export ban, scheduled to go into effect on July 1, the Central Bank of Russia does not expect domestic food prices to rise in response to more of Russian agribusiness shipping grains abroad instead of serving the local market.

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