Sentence examples for price disadvantage from inspiring English sources

But despite the resulting price disadvantage, high-speed rail still has many attractions.

Microsoft could lessen that price disadvantage if it decided to add Media Center functionality to its Xbox video game system.

A 2002 study found that India's cascading import duties, excises, sales taxes and octroi (a tax on goods in transit) accounted for nearly one-half of a price disadvantage of roughly 30% suffered by manufacturers compared with their Chinese counterparts.

Otherwise, Picker said, it's not clear how Apple could have behaved differently, since it "needed to get a bunch of books for the bookstore and it needed to make sure it wasn't going to face a price disadvantage" against Amazon.

India's tea producers are at a price disadvantage internationally partly because they are bound by law to pay certain minimum wages, while those in countries like Vietnam and Argentina, which compete with India's lower-grade teas, are not.

All of which says that the SC 430 is suddenly fighting stiff competition at a huge price disadvantage.

A lender originating a large number of mortgages with an unacceptable level of risk will find itself facing significant price disadvantages in the market.

And although charging sales tax can put his company at a pricing disadvantage, Mr. Goldstein said that gap was narrowing because Internet-only retailers have been slowly raising their prices in an effort to make a profit.

A strong yen means a ≠dip in the value of repatriated profits for big exporters such as Toyota, as well as putting their products at a competitive pricing disadvantage in export markets.

Traditional merchants have long argued that their own online divisions are at a pricing disadvantage because they must either collect sales taxes in each state where they also have a store, or must adopt burdensome policies to avoid creating a nexus.

Second, the U.S. dollar is softening while the yuan is strengthening, putting Chinese manufacturers at a pricing disadvantage on exports.