competitive goods

Those countries need cheaper, more competitive goods and services, too, for their own development.

Labour believes training is vital to the national interest if we are to produce competitive goods and services that will bring success to the new Europe.

But the region produces few internationally competitive goods other than raw materials, and its share of world trade is tiny and falling.

As important, the high dollar has done longer-term damage to some industries by discouraging investment in globally competitive goods.

And services like those of Dr. Gubanov are among that country's few competitive goods.

For example, it prohibits companies from using their "dominant position" to force clients to shun competitive goods, no matter how low the price or how high the quality.

It states that when an equal amount of payment is added to two competitive goods, the price of the dearer one will fall relative to the cheaper one.

However these do not produce genuinely competitive goods; their main function is to get work permits for Chinese expatriates who can then work as shop assistants in import/export businesses.

The first two sections were for use in commercial or design schools to teach the principles of good taste based on classical form, the better to turn out competitive goods for commerce and industry.

And here, economists generally agree that the surge in output and employment was largely fueled by strong buying both at home and abroad of America's increasingly competitive goods and services.

These are not competitive goods; each masterpiece is a one-of-a-kind production, and we would be affronted by the concept that the works of any painter should have lower price tags the greater their available number.

"Most of the factories are old, with outmoded equipment, and they're not able to produce competitive goods," said Paul Zeiber, director of the Institute for East Market Research in Hamburg.

Lloyd Wood, a spokesman for the American Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition, which has lobbied for quotas on Chinese textile exports, rejected the Chinese minister's argument that manufacturers in the United States and Europe had not adequately prepared for a rise in competitive goods from China.