The UK economy is growing strongly this year, boosting the fortunes of manufacturers who are producing for the domestic market.
The American Chamber of Commerce said that there is a growing number of companies that want to compete in China for the domestic market.
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That is barely 0.5% of the workforce, but between them they produce around 11% of Britain's exports (plus a lot of cars and engines for the domestic market as well).
Nearly four years after the start of the financial crisis that sparked our last recession, U.S. CEOs are still reluctant to take risks and place big bets on new initiatives and products for the domestic market.
Further appreciation will cut into a rising real estate asset bubble, and give Chinese consumers more buying power by encouraging Chinese manufacturers to shift production away from the export markets, to making and marketing goods and services for the domestic market.
Issufo Nurmamade, the owner of a cotton company called SANAM in the city of Nampula, says he hasn't made a profit on cotton fiber in three years, and his business is only staying afloat because he produces and markets cottonseed oil for the domestic market.
In 1994 the Dubai-based firm bought a factory in the country with a view to providing utilities services for the domestic Chinese market, but unfortunately the investment failed due to the corrupt dealings of a nearby business.
The data show that producing and selling locally for the Chinese domestic market is becoming a vital component of global operations of many Japanese companies.
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Placek is confident his strategy will compensate for any slowdown in the domestic market, which still accounts for 45% of Oknoplast's sales.
The York plant produces confectionery products for the domestic and international market including Terry's Chocolate Orange, Terry's All Gold and Twilight.
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Mr. COOK: Well, for cotton and rice, there the problem is that we're producing far more than we need for the domestic and foreign market.
The Coca-Cola Company holds as much as half of the domestic Chinese market for carbonated beverages, but the juice business is highly fragmented.
Beijing also has opened the door wider for foreign investors to access the domestic bond market, though Chinese banks and mutual funds still make up the biggest chunk of buyers.
The bank has been on the prowl for U.S. assets, amid worry in Canada that the domestic banking market is headed for slower growth.
However, the domestic market for natural gas will soon be saturated with such high levels of production and low domestic prices.
In theory, carmakers are rushing to set up assembly lines there for the sake of the domestic market, not exports.
Big Blue expects to remanufacture 100, 000 servers and personal computers a year by 2014 by installing new memory and storage and packaging them for resale to the domestic Chinese market.
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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.
The challenge for China's domestic manufacturers is clear: Capture a substantial piece of the market for new phones that will accompany that astonishing growth.
Decca and other companies built the first portable record players for the trenches of the Great War and created an explosive domestic market.
For most Chinese companies, the domestic market is already so big and dynamic, the additional revenues offered by investing in smaller markets in the Gulf fail to justify the difficulty of operating there, according to Ben Simpfendorfer, an economist and author of The New Silk Road: How a Rising Arab World is Turning Away from the West and Rediscovering China.
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So the commission recommends higher standards only for the bits of the banking system that are rooted in the domestic market.
These lazy placeholders slowed the pace at which innovation swept through the domestic manufacturing industry, making the market ripe for foreign competition.
Featuring the country's largest 2, 600mAh battery capacity and quickest recharging time among all smartphones available in the domestic market, the battery pack is ideal for the busy lifestyles of modern users.
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Given European banks' extensive exposures across the Atlantic, and given the political pressure on them to deleverage anywhere but in their domestic market, the temptation for the banks to liquidate in the U.S. and let the American economy take the strain is huge.
Operators in Europe hope that a second phase of the Open Skies deal will mean a relaxation of restrictions on European airlines' investment in U.S. carriers and the ability for European airlines to compete in the U.S. domestic market.
Obviously, we have serious questions over the shrinking domestic market for relatively expensive motorcycles.
Without the option for a domestic stock-market listing to raise cash, Chinese companies especially smaller private-sector firms are stuck for funding.
Compare that with domestic market growth for the same period of 2.7% for Walmart, 3.2% for Carrefour, 5.9% for Tesco and 1.6% for Metro.
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Add to this set of cultural strengths a second factor: the huge advantages brought by the size of the American domestic market for entertainment.
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