As for ventures wishing to import world-class computers, what could they export that would offset, say, 25 million computers at $2,000 apiece?
In 1991, the year Leningrad reverted to its old name, St . Petersburg Mr. Kolesnikov said Mr. Putin, then a city official, invited him and his business partner to create a joint venture with the city to import and build medical equipment and renovate decaying hospitals.
As part of this overall process, the Government also allowed Provinces to contract for commercial import of cereals as well as permitting joint-venture enterprises and factories to import cereals to feed their workers.
In short, if emerging economies were able to import American venture capital, there would be less need for them to invent their own.
To begin with, there was the promise of pedigree — two of Domenico De Marco's children are in on the new venture, although they were forbidden to import the forty-year-old business's name.
The current regulations, he ventured, would, for instance, allow him to import Argentine grapes into Morocco, produce the wine there, and then import it into Britain.
G.M. has a series of joint ventures with several Chinese automakers, but plans to import the Volt from Michigan.
Queen Isabella invested in a risky venture with a huge potential payoff - finding a sea route to import Indian goods and thereby bypassing the Ottomans.
The pair first ventured into business together in the late 1950s, using their American connections to import greeting cards.
The consolidation came after the rights to import the beers were assigned to Crown Imports, a joint venture of Grupo Modelo and the Barton Brands unit of Constellation Brands.The rights had been divided between Barton, which used Cramer-Krasselt as its agency, and the Gambrinus Company in San Antonio, which used Richards as its agency.
Lower tariffs would make it much easier for multinational corporations to import cars into China, while the removal of the joint venture requirement would allow multinationals to streamline the management of their Chinese operations.
