Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV's finance minister, taxed imports, offered subsidies and enforced quality standards to promote French production of the sumptuous textiles and lace that were de rigueur at the Sun King's court; then he pushed exports.
"Americans will use the rebates to buy Chinese imports offered at Wal-Mart and the $150 billion will then wind its way inevitably back to Asian coffers," says PIMCO's Bill Gross in a recent note.
A monoculture of exotic imports offers little nourishment for our wild neighbors.
Supporters say the program — which offers retraining, relocation and other benefits to workers who lose their jobs due to competition from imports — offers vital protection.
2. Djema Imports offers bolts of West African textiles: printed cottons, some traditional kente, others with geometrics that resemble midcentury-modern classics by Alexander Girard, are $5 a yard.
At the very least, however, the research makes a provocative case that income inequality needs to be thought through carefully; and that the increase in Chinese imports offers some clear benefits to low-wage Americans.* "Inequality and Prices: Does China Benefit the Poor in America?" March 2008.
Nail Rock, a British import, offers "wrap" designs that include metallic stars and psychedelic swirls — not polish, but adhesives that you simply pull off once you're done.
Thus, targeting these cytoplasmic adaptors with an inhibitor of nuclear import offers a new level of control toward dysregulated innate and adaptive immune signaling in T1D.
With Obama's backing, the U.S. Export-Import Bank offered $2 billion in loans and guarantees to Brazil's state-owned oil company Petrobras to finance exploration in the Santos Basin near Rio de Janeiro not so the oil ends up in the U.S.
This month's new books, including translations from French, Spanish and Japanese, as well as one British import, offer glimpses of family life from around the world.
BEIJING — Surprisingly strong rebounds in China's exports and imports in July offered some hope that the economy might be stabilizing, government data showed Thursday, after more than two years of slowing growth, although an imminent rebound still looks improbable.
