The phrase "a foreign competition" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a contest or rivalry that involves participants from other countries.
Example: "The company faced a significant challenge due to a foreign competition that offered similar products at lower prices."
Alternatives: "an international competitor" or "a global rival".
His complaint is against the "ruinous competition of a foreign rival who works under conditions so far superior to our own for production of light that he is flooding the domestic market with it at an incredibly low price".
Meanwhile, the U.S. subsidies and import tariffs, put in place by the Energy Tax Act enacted by President Jimmy Carter, award a tax credit of 45 cents per gallon to refiners who blend ethanol with gasoline and impose an import tariff as a deterrent to foreign competition.
In part, this is a response to foreign competition, but it is also a reaction to changing tastes, and to the fact that production processes are easier to automate than design or marketing.
It is a challenge that places us smack up against a kind of foreign competition we have never known before.
But the federal Trade Readjustment Act, which aids workers who lose their jobs as a result of foreign competition, paid for nursing school tuition.
PAGE D1 Victory for Steel Makers A ruling that foreign competition has hurt steel makers cleared the way for limits on imports.
It had to hand over to the government 85% of the £651m pre-tax profits it made last year, at a time when foreign competition is already beginning to intensify.
Just as in India, which saw a similar opening at the same time, companies have improved productivity as a result of foreign competition, and some big firms have expanded successfully abroad.This recent advance has encouraged those who would like Brazil to move further in this direction to make more noise.
A dose of foreign competition—and ownership may be just what Germany's financial sector needs.Citigroup, the world's biggest banking group, is thought to be keen to add corporate banking to its successful retail presence in Germany, by buying a big bank.
Obama also lauded Congress for sending him legislation on Thursday to provide assistance to workers who lose their jobs as a result of foreign competition.
