What such monetary reforms can do is to make possible the use of fractional coins in dispensing machines or metros, which may be the reason behind this move by Boris Yeltsin's government.Although domestic inflation is virtually dead in the former Soviet Union, imported supply-side inflation remains.
But imported supplies must be paid for in hard currency.
Because there is no port, they lose up to 10percentt of their imported supplies on the beach.
At times there have been long delays in getting imported supplies through the tightly controlled crossings from Israel into Gaza.
Natural gas exports are growing and terminals built to hold imported supplies are being repurposed for international sales.
Japan has far less than is needed by its large iron and steel industry and depends largely on imported supplies.
Many mines in Zimbabwe are running perilously low on imported supplies like cyanide, which is used to dissolve gold from crushed rock.
The stadium project has a similar opulence, and it, too, relies on imported supplies because of a distinct lack of truck-accessible roads to Manaus.
A hospital in Basra, miserably short of all its imported supplies, says that even its blood-bank (presumably not imported) has been empty for the past six days.As one unemployed scientist puts it, "Life is very, very bad".
In most cases the domestic price was free to vary with changing demand and supply conditions; local products competed with imported supplies that were generally subject to relatively low tariffs.
