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Showing 1 to 20 of 82 for “"Importers"”.
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An investigation of imbalanced position of exporters in relationships with importers : case of small exporting textile suppliers in Turkey
… imbalanced relationships between exporters and importers. Imbalances in exporter-importer relationships are considered to be mainly associated with, cross-cultural differences, size, customs, institutions, and organisational differences of each party. However, understanding of imbalances in …
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An Analysis of Alternative Corn Importing Strategies for Taiwan
Taiwan grain importers have been under the protection of government policies in importing feed grains since the early 1970's. However, the policy for grain importing will be liberalized in the near future. Under the liberalized purchasing environment, importers will be exposed to various risks in …
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Building a competitive brand advantage through importer integration : a qualitative case study on collaborative brand-building in export-import relationships
… a competitive brand advantage by integrating importers as a strategic resource, drawing on the extended resource-based view (RBV). In addressing the aim, the study identifies importers’ brand-building patterns, analyses their influencing factors, and evaluates how exporters and importers can …
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Free Trade Areas and the Construction of an Efficient Mechanism to Satisfy Industrialization Targets
… essay investigates the role played by domestic importers and foreign exporters in improving preferential access to the domestic market. To this end, the framework used in this essay extends the protection for sale analysis to explicitly model the role of domestic importers and foreign exporters …
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Issues affecting utilization of the European Union’s Generalised System of Preference (GSP)
… an investigation into the issues affecting UK importers when applying European Union’s Generalised System of Preference (GSP). It focuses on issues affecting UK importers applying European Union’s Generalised System Preference (GSP). GSP is used to encourage importation of goods from developing …
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Dwell Time for Import Transit Containers at Dar es Salaam Port: An Analysis of the Role of Free Storage time
… find evidence of discretionary behaviours by the importers taking advantage of the long free storage time offered for transit containers. The study was conducted by extracting terminal handling data for import containers for the first quarter of 2014 from Tanzania Ports Authority (TPA) terminal …
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A data-driven approach to mitigate risk in global food supply chains
… the U.S., as well as U.S. based consignees and importers receiving imported products. We focus our analysis on honey and shrimp, two products that are routinely imported and frequently adulterated. We obtain over 62,000 bills of lading of honey entering the U.S. between 2006 and 2015 from public …
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Sustainable sorting; a human-centric approach to second-hand clothing decisions
African countries are among the highest importers of secondhand clothes. Nearly seventy percent of all Western second-hand clothing (SHC) donations go to African nations (Kermeliotis & Curnow, 2013). However, the influx of second-hand clothing in Africa has severely undermined the domestic textile …
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An economic model of the iron ore trade
… crucial. For sellers, long-term commitment from importers is essential in order to maintain the long-run viability of mining projects. Since the 1960s, long-term contracts have been, and still are, the main vehicle used in international iron ore trade. Under the light of the above peculiarities …
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Potential impacts of hard infrastructure development on agricultural trade
… infrastructure has a larger impact on trade than importers' infrastructure. Results show that a 10 percent improvement in the quality of an exporters' hard infrastructure may increase total agricultural import volume by 8.6 percent, while a 10 percent improvement in importers' hard infrastructure …
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Caso de estudio: Impacto de la pandemia originada por el COVID-19 en la exportación de cacao en el año 2020
… destination of their exports, and that is that importers of Ecuadorian cocoa have demanded a greater volume than their Peruvian partners, and it has even been seen that some important importers of Peruvian cocoa have replaced it with Ecuadorian cocoa.
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Assessment of policies and socio-economic factors affecting pesticide use in the Philippines
… of subsidy or tax experienced by pesticide importers. It was found that the effective rate of protection for the nine pesticides was between negative 12 and 25 percent when the exchange rate effects were accounted for. However, the rate of protection became more negative when the equilibrium …
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Shield and Shuttle: Importins as Protective Chaperones and the Nuclear Transport Mechanism of H2A-H2B
… could have dual functions as 1) nuclear importers and 2) molecular chaperones. This thought stems back to characteristics of importins: they are negatively charged and shuttle positively charged DNA and RNA binding proteins prone to aggregation such as histones, ribosomal proteins, and …
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Inclusive Educational Practices for Students With Disabilities Within the European Union
… discussing the professional responsibility of ""importers"" and ""exporters"" of inclusive educational practices particularly in the European context."
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Essays in Environmental and Development Economics
… to be effective. Without coordination across importers, tariffs are undermined by leakage to unregulated markets. Without commitment to upholding tariffs over the long term, tariffs are reduced over time as importers give in to static incentives. I develop a dynamic empirical framework for …
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The marketing of lesser known tropical hardwoods in the U.K
… two main market intermediaries, the merchants/importers and the end-users. Therefore, two main surveys were conducted: (a) Merchants/importers. The effect of the various marketing efforts on the eventual outcome of lesser-known specie introductions were examined. A further, smaller, survey was …
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Export Strategies for Ivory Coast Cocoa
… of oligopolistic exporters and oligopsonistic importers, thus the market equations needed to find spatial equilibrium solutions are not only the export supply and import demand equations, but also marginal export revenue and marginal import cost functions to account for non-competitive …
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Importer Preferences and Opinions on Vacuum and Steam Treatment Technology for Hardwood Logs Export
… of this economic contribution, with major importers including China, Vietnam, and Canada. Most importing countries have specific requirements to prevent the movement of invasive organisms on the logs imported, of which chemical treatment is common. This study examines the feasibility and …
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Exports of U.S. Hardwood Products: Increasing Performance in Asia and Europe
… study and survey research were carried out among importers and exporters, whereby it was found that aspects related to price, quality and service, are critical in achieving competitive advantage. This motivated a study in demand and pricing management, which found that these tasks may be subject …
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Asymmetric Exchange Rate Pass-Through in Southeast Asian Rice Trade
… policies. The analysis focuses on the main Asian importers, by volume, of rice (Malaysia, Indonesia, and China) from one of the largest, by volume, Asian rice exporters (Thailand). Another novel aspect of this analysis is the model employed. A nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag econometric …
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