If it sells it in the country, then it can only get the lower, dramatically subsidized price.
It then sells it, at a heavily subsidized price, to consumers for less than 40 cents a gallon.
The government meanwhile cut its costs by increasing the subsidized price of diesel and reducing expenditure in sectors such as defense.
However, risks still remain due to the government's decision to increase regularly the subsidized price of diesel to reduce its financial burden.
The loophole primarily concerns purchases of smartphones, which Best Buy generally sells at a subsidized price, like much of the electronics industry.
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It also allowed regular increases in the subsidized price of diesel to improve its weak financial position that has often been blamed for putting the rating at risk.
But her carrier, Verizon, announced this summer that customers would have to give up unlimited data plans if they want to upgrade their phones at the subsidized price.
This and another decision to increase the subsidized price of diesel had led to the exit last year of Trinamool Congress from the ruling coalition led by Mr. Singh's Congress party.
Android devices offer no such guarantee because there is such a great variety in hardware and software, and product reviews, word of mouth, and subsidized price are often the biggest drivers of sales.
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In Michigan, meanwhile, the public service commission there says that the 10 percent target by 2015 is saving money for energy customers, largely because the price of future advanced coal generation is greater than the current subsidized price of green power.
If the trial shows that the stoves can be sold, even at a subsidized price, work on establishing a sustainable market can begin, providing access to the stove for many more women in Darfur and elsewhere than would ever be possible through donor grants alone.
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For one thing, he notes that the company did not originally subsidize the phone, although he notes that the company quickly fixed that issue by cutting the price of the original iPhone shortly after release, and then offering iPhone 3G at a subsidized price a year after the first version launched.
While the new iPod touch continues its tradition of being thinner than its contemporary iPhone cousin and has a bigger display and better camera than the fourth-generation model, it is bested in many other respects by the iPhone 5, which of course has much higher hardware costs than are reflected in the subsidized price.
But in democracies that bent can lead to silly policies such as the new government of Thailand's subsidized rice price, designed to aid farmers but imperiling a huge export market with artificially high supply costs.
Two-thirds of the price was subsidized by the city, which estimates that it has replaced almost a hundred thousand coal stoves since the project began, five years ago, cutting down on sulfur and dust emissions.
Solyndra's technology is excellent, he says, but it just couldn't compete in the market with low-price panels from subsidized Chinese makers.
It has already raised the price of this heavily subsidized fuel in order to cut back consumption.
In Western Europe, where most universities are heavily subsidized by national governments, the price can appear astoundingly cheap.
The steps included clearance for foreign investment in the multi-brand retail and civil aviation sectors, and a decision to allow gradual increases in the price of highly-subsidized diesel.
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As long as returns on fossil fuel stocks remain high (and subsidized by the lack of a price on carbon pollution), they will remain highly attractive to asset managers who must meet their duty to maximize returns.
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Although I have been critical of certain cable practices, it is a step too far to suggest that cable companies should be subject to price regulation or government-subsidized overbuilding because they invested in neighborhoods where no else has been willing to follow.
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Another spike in the price of oil that would spur subsidized green projects but we're not holding our breath.
And, further, there are indications that Apple is planning to expand its customer base later this year with a lower-cost iPhone for emerging markets (think India, China, et al.) where consumers tend to pay the full price at retail, not the subsidized contract prices we are spoiled by here.
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Part of what is produced has to be offered to the state at a discounted price so it can be sold through the subsidized public distribution system to the poor.
These companies are suffering big losses from a solar panel price collapse due to a glut of government-subsidized competitors and from slumping global sales, especially in debt-crippled Europe.
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By 2008 the price should be somewhat lower--and many Yakushima residents, subsidized by the government, are likely to be driving them.
Gasoline (or petrol as it is called in India) is partially deregulated so the price is a function of international market rates whereas diesel is heavily subsidized in the country.
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Chinese manufacturers, heavily subsidized by their own government and relying on vast economies of scale, have helped send the price of conventional solar panels plunging and grabbed market share far more quickly than anyone anticipated.
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