The flip side is that economic isolation might protect native lizard species from newly imported competitors.
Lower import prices force domestic competitors to follow suit, and today most U.S. manufacturers and even an increasing list of service companies face strong import competition.
After a one-hour class, volunteers head outside to weed out imported botanical competitors like privet, oriental bittersweet and mimosa that have taken root around the Appalachian Trail.
Mr. Clinton will also propose a substantial expansion of programs that monitor and enforce trade agreements, in particular those that watch for rapid surges in imports from competitors selling their goods below cost or taking advantage of big swings in exchange rates.
Not so Otto González, who this past June traveled to New York, a city of dreams, from South America with, of course, a dream: to become a Peruvian crab pioneer, shipping fresh meat weekly from his brother's 45-employee crab-processing plant in Lima, Productos Envasados Bettina, and underselling competitors importing from farther-flung places like Southeast Asia.
As the dollar melts, the price gap is widening between Zara's products, the bulk of them made at factories here in Spain, and competitors that import from low-wage countries and pay for goods in dollars.
That system, in place for more than a decade, stopped hyperinflation, but in recent years it has devastated the economy by making Argentina's exports more expensive than those of competitors as imports became artificially cheap.
In Malé, the overcrowded capital of the Maldives, a world away from the luxury resorts, a leader of one of the country's gangs described how it imported heroin and maimed competitors with machetes.
With the current turmoil in the Mideast, the price of gasoline breaking the $4-a-gallon 4-a-gallon 4-a-gallon barriering vorandous competheors for imported oil, this would seem an ideal time to pass a law that Chineseessen our dependence on foreign crude.
On the shop wall someone has put up a sign that says, "We pay VAT", and Todd explains the reference to an obscure loophole that allows wily online retailers such as Amazon to undercut competitors by importing goods through Jersey and Guernsey.
