Following the Government’s changes to tariff and quota arrangements in the 1980’s and the resulting increase in imports of low cost footwear, the Company instituted a major review of its operations. This resulted in a new strategic initiative to improve the Company’s product quality ,responsiveness and competitiveness through investing in technologically advanced plant and equipment, “Quick Res...

In the past two decades, China’s manufacturing exports have grown spectacularly, U.S. imports from China have surged, but U.S. exports to China have increased only modestly. Using representative, longitudinal data on individual earnings by employer, we analyze the effect of exposure to import competition on earnings and employment of U.S. workers over 1992 through 2007. Individuals who in 1991 ...

The rapid diffusion of technology and manufacturing processes to less developed nations has been one of the most significant devel­ opments in the interaction between advanced and less developed countries in recent years. Industries that were almost exclusively concentrated in the most advanced nations less than three decades ago are now commonplace in many developing countries. Thus, while tec...

A last-minute World Trade Organization compromise in Geneva on intellectual property protection and access to medicines is being heralded by some as finally opening the doors to imports of generic medicines by poor countries without a manufacturing capability. In intense negotiations in recent months, the U.S. reached behind-thescenes agreements with key countries such as Brazil, India, South A...

China‟s rapid and relatively recent accession to the global economy has had a number of important impacts for the global economy. Amongst these is the consequence of its rising manufacturing exports and commodity imports for the terms of trade. If this leads to a sustained reversal of the long-term relationship between the prices of manufactures and commodities, it challenges the basic premise ...

This paper proposes and evaluates a mechanism through which imports of unskilled intermediates (offshoring) benefit both skilled and unskilled workers by inducing capital deepening and innovation in developed countries. Data for manufacturing industries in the US over 1974-2005, show that although offshoring increases inequality between skilled and unskilled workers, unskilled workers also gain...

This study's primary purpose is to determine and assess the impact of exports, imports, manufacturing in Indonesia from 1990 2019. The secondary data utilized by researcher this study spans years Imports exports commodities services 1990s, when there was no import-export ease, compared 1998, had ease. issue that a monetary crisis caused Indonesia's economic structure become somewhat disorganize...

Presented simple extensions to scala language related to import statements: exported imports, which provide ability to reuse sequence of import clauses in composable form and default rewriters, which provide mechanism for pluggable macro-based AST transformation of overall compilation unit, activated by import of library object. Using these facilities not only allows more compact code, it preve...