Sentence examples for price floors from inspiring English sources

One familiar instrument, successfully used in Indonesia and Vietnam, is minimum price floors.

Architects' and lawyers' fees in Italy and Germany are subject to price floors and ceilings.

The CAAC sporadically tweaks its price floors and ceilings to move them closer to market rates, but never quite matches them.

Mr Bush's protectionism still pales in comparison with Mr Reagan's the man who slapped "voluntary export restraints" on cars and machine tools and introduced minimum price floors on semiconductors.

Such settlements have been reached in trade disputes in the past, leading to outcomes like price floors for tomatoes imported from Mexico and the so-called voluntary restraints that Japan imposed on its car exports in the 1980s, which were anything but voluntary.

Because many government-owned companies are loss-making, governments faces a tough choice: sell them at low prices now; provide incentives to buyers, such as price floors for products, or monopoly status to inflate prices; or reform the companies in the medium term, selling them at higher prices later, once they are profitable.

We don't have a price floor.

People in the industry are arguing for a price floor.

We will never propose a price floor," he said.

The offer establishes a timeline and a price floor for other potential bidders.

"The Commission does not support the idea of a price floor.