More upward changes would improve the competitive position of American foreign trad ers.
"This is fundamentally improving the competitive position of the United States in the world economy".
In order to improve the competitive position and efficiency level of multimodal transport, consolidation of freight flows is often suggested.
If profits are very low then companies will go out of business, improving the competitive position (and thus the margins) of those businesses that survive.
He said in a conference call that the fact G.M. was not downgraded further was "a real tribute to the remarkable progress G.M. has made in improving the competitive position of its North American business".
Indeed, he said that the Congressional Budget Office had noted that the proposal "would improve the competitive position of small- and medium-size banks, probably leading to some increase in their share of the loan market".
dispute resolution, instead of domestic trade remedies like antidumping, "is that if the subsidies are withdrawn, it can improve the competitive position of U.S. exporters in other markets," said Carolyn B. Gleason, a partner and longtime trade lawyer in the Washington office of McDermott Will & Emery.
Fans of the limited-liability concept also fret that lifting the curtain between parent and subsidiary could lead to over-centralised corporate control and reduced investment.But others argue that it will improve the competitive position of firms that want to maintain high standards abroad yet do not want to sacrifice the privileged access to capital markets that British domicile gives them.
And as Messrs Gilson and Milhaupt note briefly in their article, despite fears that sovereign funds will use their investments to secure technology, gain access to natural resources or improve the competitive position of their domestic companies, "no one can point to a reported incidence of such behaviour .In fact, there is no such thing as an average sovereign-wealth fund.
Even when spectrum is auctioned, the FCC's efforts to improve the competitive position of the lagging carriers inevitably backfire.
