Competition from Latin America.

(iv) when offers for identical products and services have been obtained competitively within a reasonable period and the prices and conditions offered remain competitive

Additionally, developing country firms may have competitive advantages in the use of mature technologies and in the production of goods competing on price.

Such price activity could be equally consistent with active competition.

Competitiveness, being a relative concept, depends on the cost price of the technologies sources that are being substituted.

Increasing competition puts pressure on large telecommunications companies, and the prices of some services tend to decrease.

As a result, contracting authorities might face higher prices and the members of the cartel will enjoy profits above the competitive prices.

38. For international business, Bermuda requires effective and competitively priced communications.

Rather, the competition agency's decision was based on market data showing that cement prices had risen by as much as 38 per cent.

Decree No. 92 50 of 29 January 1992 establishing regulations in the field of competition and prices

Economies of scale enabled the United States to become the most competitive supplier, offering inexpensive and attractive products.

Internal obstacles include informational barriers (e.g. unreliable data on the international market), functional barriers (e.g. lack of competencies and trained personnel), product and price barriers (difficulty in matching competitors' prices) and lack of bargaining power, distribution and logistics barriers (e.g. complexity of foreign distribution channels).

A survey of price setting behaviour in 654 United Kingdom companies found that competition (as measured by numbers of competitors or market shares) increased the frequency of price reviews. See Simon Hall et al., How do UK companies set prices? , Bank of England Quarterly Bulletin, May 1996, pp. 180 192.

To invite Arab States to develop and track the marketing of communication services at competitive rates with a view to enhancing the prosperity of the Arab economy and enabling it to confront global competition

Globalization has meant that competitiveness is increasingly based not only on price but also on a culture of innovation and the capacity of a firm to change.

Moreover, it intensifies competition, resulting in better product quality and lower prices.

GLOBALIZATION, COMPETITION, COMPETITIVENESS AND DEVELOPMENT

The flexibility of the price system in a context of full stability and economic freedom resulted in the international competitiveness shown by a large number of industries.

Traders in developing countries and transition economies needed access to secure, efficient and competitively priced financial services.

(d) Evaluation and comparison of transport cost to determine system competitiveness and subsequent impact on traders competitiveness in foreign markets

The investigatory powers of the Competition Directorate in identifying and recording unlawful behaviour cover an extensive sphere of application ranging from regulation of the prices of certain products to market transparency and individual or collective competitive abuses.

Although price competition among large conglomerates from the Republic of Korea was generally limited to international markets, firms competed vigorously to win temporary monopolistic positions or subsidies.

Representatives of two major fixed line telephone service providers met and agreed to limit price competition between them.

Eurozone politicians tend to believe that it is possible to regain competitiveness by carrying out reforms, undertaking infrastructure projects, and improving productivity, but without reducing domestic prices. That is a fallacy, because such steps improve competitiveness only in the same measure as they reduce domestic prices vis à vis eurozone competitors.

Competitiveness Surveys

The Australia Thailand agreement, for instance, contains a definition of the anti competitive practices to be proscribed these include business conduct or transactions that adversely affect competition, such as anti competitive horizontal arrangements between competitors misuse of market power, including predatory pricing anti competitive vertical arrangements and anti competitive mergers and acquisitions.

Memorandum of Understanding between the Fiscalia Nacional Económica of Chile and the Competition Bureau of Canada, 17 December 2001.

Climate and Competitiveness

Aggregate competitiveness indicatorb

CA So what happened was that, through increased ability to use fracking technology, the calculated reserves of natural gas kind of exploded and the price plummeted, which made wind uncompetitive.

Such price increases can prove particularly inflationary in countries that import commodities. And they can be disastrous to exporting economies, which risk rapid currency appreciation and thus a loss of competitiveness.

The cost to automotive companies of installing equipment to neutralize the fumes emitted by diesel vehicles is also increasing, making it difficult to keep the price of the cars competitive.

The problem with predatory pricing is that the courts are very unlikely to be able to distinguish unfair prices from effective competition that is a boon to consumers. It is the less efficient competitors, and not consumers, that are the most likely to benefit from punishing Intel for lowering its prices.

Enhancing wage flexibility in an environment in which unemployment exceeds 11 will allow firms to cut wages, and lower labor costs will permit them to cut prices in an effort to gain market share. Deregulation that intensifies product market competition will similarly lead to lower prices (that being what competition does).

Segment for high level participation Globalization, competition, competitiveness and development 2

Much attention is already being given to the first step, that is, to provide the assurance of supply of nuclear fuel and technology at competitive market prices.

Often lowest price is the sole award criterion in competitions conducted entirely through an ERA.

Sometimes competition between national and local governments, and between large and small towns, affects the ability of local governments to retain qualified personnel.

First is the development of a competition culture an understanding by the public of the benefits of competition and broad based support for a strong competition policy.

The latter type of obstacle occurs in the market for products and services itself (through dividing up of the market to deter new competitors, sharing out of customers or geographical areas of coverage, action to affect the free setting of prices or mark ups, joint setting of prices or mark ups or the exchange of information on them, as well as common price tariffs, etc.).

In other words, the relationship between internationalization and firm competitiveness is two way in the sense that the former increases the latter and the latter leads to the former.

Europe s Competitiveness Shell Game

Renewable energy Materials science projects.

The Commission also advocated that the Government revisit the tariff structure of cement in order to make the landed price of imported cement from Zimbabwe more competitive than it was at the time.

Export subsidies and domestic supports maintained by developed countries are the main reasons for depressed world prices for agricultural commodities, undermining the competitiveness of landlocked developing countries.