Sentence examples for procurement preferences from inspiring English sources

With the goal of promoting "indigenous innovation," China has set product standards and procurement preferences that are a disadvantage to American workers, companies and technology, many economists believe.

And China's promise not to "link its innovation policies to the provision of government procurement preferences", implies ditching its "indigenous innovation" policy that discriminates against foreign firms.

Selling military equipment to the United States has long been difficult for European companies, who cite legislative hurdles like the Buy American Act, passed by Congress in 1933, which allows procurement preferences for domestically produced goods.

The Peru FTA bans application of Buy America programs and other federal and state domestic procurement preferences unless specific exceptions are taken.

It would contain a broader version of the the NAFTA-style investor rights that promote job offshoring, ban Buy American procurement preferences and roll back financial regulation.

Another draft objective says the administration wants "to establish rules that require government procurement to be conducted in a manner that is consistent with U.S. law and the administration's policy on domestic procurement preferences," the paper reported.

By 2007, this had evolved into an affirmative procurement preference action plan that strongly urged all Dutch federal ministries and subsidiary government bodies to use open source software based on open standards wherever possible.

These structural properties are used in a numerical study that sheds insights into the manufacturer's and retailers' procurement contract design preferences and how these preferences are affected by production cost structure and demand variability.

Mr. Geithner lobbied against Chinese government procurement rules giving preference to products with intellectual property developed in China.

At a loss of more than $10 for every $1 gained, access for some U.S. companies to bid on contracts in TPP countries is a terrible trade-off for waiving Buy American preferences on U.S. procurement.

Also proposed was an end to NAFTA's open-ended waiver of Buy American and other local preferences in government procurement that outsource our tax dollars rather than reinvesting them to create jobs here.