…depends on Japan for 13% of its imports, largely capital goods such as machine tools and electronic parts for manufacturing. Filed under miscellaneous goods are such products as precision instruments,…

…Euro — foreign goods and services would suddenly cost twice as much compared to Irish goods and services. The balanced decline in wages and prices (including rents) is called an…

…like retailing, transporting and wholesaling goods made anywhere to be sold in country. Getting the goods to the store is labor intensive. That doesn’t depend on whether the good is…

…of Mr. Obama’s advisory team, the board also needs adequate business representation from the economy’s real wealth-creating sector – the goods-producing industries that Washington has too long neglected and whose…

…the dollar and bids down the yuan so that American goods and services will be overpriced in world markets and Chinese goods and services will be underpriced. As a result,…

…would take to produce $700 billion worth of goods and bring trade into balance.) Mr. Greenspan is enthusiastic about international trade. “Global market competition and integration in goods, services and…

…weighted very differently then domestic production or consumption deflators. Over half of imports are agricultural and industrial raw materials, including energy. Final products such as capital goods, autos and other…

…to be a problem. Economic theory suggests that a “destination VAT” – that is, a VAT imposed on all goods, but only those goods, consumed in the country – should…

…Over the first 11 months of 2005 the US imported $1,592bn of non-oil goods and services, compared to $1,446bn of non-oil goods and services over the same period in 2004,…

…price increases between consumer goods and all other goods, that difference is due entirely to the fact that the price of IT equipment has fallen so dramatically in price since…