Even if a New Yorker visited the winery in person, New York law banned it from shipping a case of wine back to the customer's New York apartment.

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In the meantime some big automakers have chosen to stock more inventory in case of shipping delays.

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But they have less chance of becoming big exporters of finished products, because the end users, such as car makers, may prefer having their sheets, plates and tubes knocked up locally, thus making it easier to change specifications rapidly, and reducing the need to keep big stockpiles in case of shipping delays.

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The choke point ripples across the economy, forcing some companies to abandon just-in-time shipping and stockpile goods in case of delays.

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In any case, every shipping company wants to reduce its emissions.

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And if I did want the whole album, the expectation of the production savings (no liner notes to print, no plastic case, no shipping) creates an expectation that I will pay less for that, a perception that has driven down the price of CDs to compete with digital albums.

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But the idea that you get a break for shipping jobs overseas is simply not the case.

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And this case serves warning to the intermediary companies involved in shipping seafood that they are sailing in dangerous waters.

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And when the dish is accompanied by a quinoa salad, eaten either in the industrial-chic interior or on packing-case seating in one of the open-fronted shipping containers that form the shady garden, the experience is far from typical.

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Online orders are being subject to shipping delays and, while you might think this is just another case of holiday supply versus demand, many are calling shenanigans.

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Green Mountain does present an intriguing case of potential securities fraud, involving the oldest of schemes: Shipping product to a captive vendor to inflate revenue and earnings.

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Now, Fusion Garage tells us that JooJoo units are actually in Los Angeles, where they've just been released from a paperwork-related customs delay, and that the "absolute worst case" is that they'll arrive to customers via overnight shipping on April 2nd, although FG is hoping for the 1st.

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Clearly, if this is the case, you can cut your orders of screens by 50% and still be shipping the same number of iPhones you first thought of.

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The deputy prime minister denied this was the case and said he had been involved in encouraging the employment of British citizens in British shipping.

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