Countries have slashed their tariffs on industrial goods in successive rounds of trade talks.
Despite fears of a double-dip recession, industrial goods companies are the biggest overweight position for hedge funds.
European countries came to China to buy its tea, silks and spices and offered European industrial goods in exchange.
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About 5 million shares in industrial goods firm Ingersoll-Rand shares were sold, bringing the position down to 637 thousand.
Rich countries are loth to do more on farm trade until they see progress in talks on industrial goods and services.
The Colombia trade agreement would allow more than 80% of U.S. consumer and industrial goods to enter the Latin American nation duty-free.
Even companies providing basic industrial goods in China are producing eye-popping returns.
Far from dead, our manufacturing sector is the world's largest, with 5% of the world's population producing five times their share in industrial goods.
The issue is whether Europe, eager to export its industrial goods, is ready in return to open both its industrial and its agricultural doors.
The framework for talks on industrial goods has many loose ends, and the text on services does little more than tell negotiators to try harder.
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Developed countries' tariffs on industrial goods, at least, are already low.
All tariffs on industrial goods will be eliminated within 10 years, and most of the remaining tariffs on agricultural goods will be eliminated over the next 15 years.
Demand for industrial goods will collapse, pushing their prices down.
G20 was furious at the discrepancy between the Europeans' timidity on cutting farm tariffs and the ambition of their demands for reductions in developing countries' tariffs on industrial goods.
Previously limited to the labour-intensive manufacture of light-industrial goods such as toys, pens or shoes, private enterprises can now muster the wherewithal to invest in capital-intensive projects such as car factories and steel plants.
If the Senate approves the agreement by the end of the year, as expected, 80% of U.S. exports of consumer and industrial goods and 90% of agricultural exports to Peru will immediately become duty-free, according to the U.S. trade representative's (USTR) office.
Given the mercantilist mindset of trade negotiations, that will only happen if barriers to industrial goods and services are also reduced, especially by big developing countries such as Brazil and India. (The fact that lower tariffs benefit an importing economy is lost on trade negotiators.) In this area, the Geneva deal achieved less.
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Beginning October 31st, Panama will eliminate tariffs on more than 86 percent of U.S. industrial and consumer goods.
In the components industry, as in many other industrial and consumer goods industries in China, there are hundreds, even thousands, of individual customers and competitors, which include state-owned companies, private companies and foreign invested enterprises.
Working closely with a formal interagency committee and private sector stakeholders, Mr. Weiss negotiated with U.S. trading partners -- including Brazil, China, the EU, India, Korea, and Mexico -- to address problematic regulations that impeded market access for U.S. producers of numerous industrial and agricultural goods.
Since the beginning of 2013, its operations have been divided into four business sectors: Automotive Technology, Industrial Technology, Consumer Goods, and Energy and Building Technology.
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Industrial usage (for goods manufacturing out of wood as well as pallets and crating) has been weak in the past few months but is likely to show a mild rebound in 2013.
In the U.S., we can see it in the reversals of previously positive economic reports and unexpected declines in durable goods orders, industrial production, new home sales, existing home sales, new home starts, construction spending, new jobs creation, personal income, consumer confidence, small business confidence, and so on.
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Long gone are the days of the Great Exhibition in London of 1851, the progenitor of all expos, when the point was to show off manufactured goods (and British industrial strength).
These figures do not even count our steadily rising imports of industrial machinery and other capital-intensive goods from China.
Hence the cost of manufactured goods does not rise in the industrial countries even though production is booming.
Meanwhile, capital goods expenditures remain depressed along with industrial capacity utilization, a leading indicator for rising allocations sooner or later.
Dhanda asserts that the trends in global industrial production, U.S. durable goods orders and the global ISM new order index all argue for a more cautious stance on chip stocks.
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Although the prices of some goods (such as energy and industrial raw materials) could pick up in 2003, the effect will probably be balanced by continuing falls in the prices of most services.
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