sell below cost

The larger companies could sell below cost to win market share.

Anything that gets regularly sold below cost price is always going to be a shaky investment.

It was a good martini, probably sold below cost.

In the end, the cartel could not keep up selling below cost, and had to give in.

Foreigners are not permitted to sell below cost in the American market, an act defined as "dumping."

Japanese firms have a record of gaining a market toehold by selling below cost.

Dumping occurs when a product is sold below cost, injuring domestic producers.

A group of American granite producers and fabricators have charged that imports were being sold below cost.

The proposal would outlaw "predatory pricing," in which gas is sold below cost to drive out competition.

Competitors say the foreign grocers have no profit margin at all, and some accuse them of selling below cost.

It is hard to imagine Russian companies selling below cost because their costs, especially wages, have collapsed along with the economy to appallingly low levels.

'But yes, there were a few cases where things were sold below cost."

Companies may be willing to sell below cost to get rid of inventories, to maintain relationships with customers and to expand their market share.

Nevertheless, selling below cost is a commercial stratagem which will, sooner or later, be tolerated by consumers.

So they began subsidizing the production of commodities they could sell below cost quickly, taking away markets from American producers.

Zenith said the sets were being sold below cost, driving most of the American television equipment industry off shore or out of business.

You see, a large percentage of businesses failed even in boom times in which case their inventories were sold below cost.

Just why private companies would invest in new factories in China in order to sell below cost is a bit of a mystery.

Many exports are sold below cost, undermining the ability of the world's poor farmers to sell their products at home or as exports.

The practice of selling below cost, known as dumping, is used by companies that are willing to sustain losses to increase their share of the market.

Mr. Bisignani acknowledged that the days of fares sold below costs were waning.

Liggett charged that Brown & Williamson was selling below cost.

Staples like bread, milk, rice and flour are sold below cost, and are relatively inexpensive.

Current American law, along with the laws of many countries that have imitated American practices, also defines dumping as selling below cost.

The Administration proceeded to find the Japanese guilty of "dumping" chips, that is, undercutting other manufacturers by selling below cost.