Goods manufactured or assembled in Puerto Rico primarily use imported industrial components.
The United States and Europe have mastered the art of forcing open poor nations' economies to imported industrial goods and services.
After his N.H.L. career ended, he coached and played in the minors, operated a service station in Vancouver, imported industrial machinery and sold industrial chemicals.
The negotiations foundered on the right of India and other developing countries to protect critical agricultural products from competition in exchange for cutting tariffs on imported industrial goods.
Takis Liberdopoulos, who imports industrial machinery, said: "Greece has to stay in – its our only protection against what this government is planning".
Photograph: INSEE The prices levied for energy, manufactured goods, and imported industrial products all fell, creating what INSEE dubbed a "significant decline in industrial prices on the French market".
These are time-series charts of growth rates for things like GDP, exports, imports, industrial production, financial-market stuff like bond spreads and stock market capitalisations, and measures of confidence.
FIESP, an industrialists' trade body in São Paulo, says its members are already struggling: in 2010 the share of imported industrial goods in total consumption was at an all-time high.
China encourages the import of industrial commodities, such as oil, base metals and even quality fabrics and industrial machinery provided goods made with them are sent abroad.
But it might have to attract foreign donors to have the liquidity it needs for imports, especially food imports, and industrial inputs.
