The foreign suppliers choose to move here to dodge tariffs, currency swings and transportation costs.
The foreign suppliers, meantime, choose to follow to dodge tariffs, currency swings and transportation costs.
In a more integrated global economy, companies can switch to foreign suppliers more easily.
Economists' next argument for free trade is that opening up markets to foreign suppliers increases competition.
With its outdated equipment, the firm was also under threat from more competitive foreign suppliers.
U.S. lawmakers have also resisted big defense contract awards to foreign suppliers, even those with U.S.-incorporated subsidiaries.
Five months out of the year, it is dependent on foreign suppliers from Spain, Turkey and Israel.
If not, foreign suppliers can pay for some of these unemployed people walking around here through increased taxes.
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Business leaders say some companies verge on bankruptcy because they cannot extend lines of credit with foreign suppliers.
The FDA says additional rules are expected, including those addressing foreign suppliers, animal food and third -party auditors.
It will also slash U.S. oil consumption by 12 billion barrels, dramatically reducing our reliance on foreign suppliers.
The reality of industrial globalization means that the United States will increasingly rely on foreign suppliers of military equipment.
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Gold was needed to pay foreign suppliers who knew even back then that no good could come from paper money.
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More so than retailers and service providers, manufacturing companies have foreign suppliers and must import raw materials from around the world.
And spare parts are hard to come by in a region which some foreign suppliers shun for fear of being kidnapped.
Business leaders say some companies are on verging on bankruptcy because they are unable to extend lines of credit with foreign suppliers.
With the country only producing 2 million pounds, that leaves plenty of room for foreign suppliers to get in on the action.
What happens to the person who parked more than 100, 000 euros in an account before buying a property or before paying foreign suppliers?
Otherwise, any gains it makes on the factory floor will quickly be erased as its customers drive down prices or switch to foreign suppliers.
Nixon's policy failed miserably, and he resorted to enhancing domestic supply at a terrifying environmental cost and by turning to reliable low-cost foreign suppliers.
The Bush Administration is nearly as intent as Moscow on adding the Soviet Union to the list of U.S.-approved, "secure" foreign suppliers of oil and natural gas.
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Meanwhile, foreign suppliers like Bosch of Germany and Denso of Japan have followed European and Asian automakers to the U.S. as the those firms build more vehicles here.
Zhang Xinmin, an agricultural official with the State Statistical Bureau, argues that dependence on foreign suppliers would impose a burden on the Chinese government and the world market.
Lula also slammed Vale for buying cargo vessels from foreign suppliers rather than having them built in Brazil, a dispute that led to years of tensions between Vale and the government.
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China, the world's biggest coal producer by some distance, has turned to foreign suppliers over the past couple of years and is likely to rely on them even more in future.
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Meanwhile the Chinese industry is growing, and big foreign suppliers feel that they need to establish their own operations in China now in order to remain competitive, rather than wait for a political settlement.
To kick-start an oil-services industry, Norway calibrated its national-content rules realistically in scope and duration, required foreign suppliers to work closely with local firms and forced Statoil, its national oil company, to bid against rivals to develop fields.
What is easy, however, is suing the folks in your own back yard -- which is why Microsoft is lobbying to get laws passed in several states that'll put US businesses on the hook for the pirating ways of their foreign suppliers.
Not just the goodwill that accrues during a crisis because you happen to employ 40, 000 or so natives (not counting dealerships), the company has, perforce, also learned how to bridge the cultural synapses that plague other companies, including Boeing, in their relationships with foreign suppliers.
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