This loophole created an opening for foreign countries, including the United States and China, to export thin-film cells to India.
The U.S. exports of thin film solar cells to India have been particularly successful thanks to low interest loans from the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation and the Export-Import Bank.
OO US Drought Raising Food Prices Pinching Consumers - Beef, pork, poultry, eggs and milk have had the most dramatic price increases as drought, a virus outbreak and rising exports have thinned U.S. supplies.
In addition, France, known worldwide for its beautiful, thin women could export its expertise overseas".
But China worries that a stronger currency could hurt struggling factories in the coastal provinces because they operate on thin margins and export goods based on contracts denominated in dollars.
That would make goods produced here even more expensive to export, and further erode what manufacturers say are already thin profit margins.
And they undermine incentives to export, making world prices more volatile and international markets thinner.
"We are gradually increasing our emphasis on the domestic market until we can forget about the export market, because the profit margins on exports are so thin".
That is more than India's entire merchandise exports today.Much of this, however, may benefit only a thin upper crust of Indian society.
PHILADELPHIA'S greatest food export is the cheese steak, which is built around beef sliced paper thin and sizzled very briefly on a griddle.
Export businesses in fiercely competitive industries said that the cuts might erase already thin profit margins and imperil smaller manufacturers that are short of cash.
