They operative as private sector companies in a market system, just like other companies.

The British Virgin Islands was one of the first Territories to adopt legislation (in the mid 1980s) allowing registration of international business companies and continues to claim about 45 per cent of the world's market.

The low market concentration probably makes it easier for steel companies from developing countries to enter the world market.

And of course Billingsgate, famously, was London's fish market, operating on site here until the mid 1980s.

The modern market can include domestic and foreign providers, both SMEs and large companies.

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As a result, the mid 1980s began to see trends of saturation in some parts of the housing market.

The companies agreed on a market division arrangement that was closely monitored through their trade association.

The purpose of antitrust law is to stop the abusive influence of the market by big companies.

Colombian companies have invested abroad in various market niches in Latin America by exploiting their brand names.

In the large scale retailing segment, domestic companies still dominate the market the three largest retailers are national firms controlling almost 60 per cent of the market.

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United States companies, even though some have already ventured abroad, are still mostly concentrated in the domestic market.

Foreign companies can, however, enter the Indian retail market through manufacturing, franchising, sourcing locally, test marketing, and so forth.

The social levy for artists is collected from companies which market the works of self employed artists and publicists.

The existence of these companies distorted market signal, reduced the elements resources use efficiency, increased the cost of social management, thereby hindering the establishment of market environment with fair competition.

For transnational corporations (TNCs) and large companies, this related to export markets whereas SMEs were more specifically concerned with domestic market share, including increased market opportunities as suppliers to TNCs.

There should also be more focus on abuse of international dominance by transnational companies through market behaviour or intellectual property.

The predominance of established transnational companies in production and trade also makes market entry difficult for individual developing country firms.

30. First, there may be monopolistic or oligopolistic situations, in which one or a handful of companies control a given market.

The absence of regulation in the market can be perverse, and suggests that domestic monopolistic behaviour in the wholesale segment by domestic companies could be replaced by foreign monopolies controlling the market.

Successful meat processing companies strive for further improvements in product range and quality in the light of specific needs of each market.

Governments should continue port institutional reforms to make ports more market oriented through, for example, the granting of management contracts or terminal leases to mixed economy companies operating according to commercial practices or to private companies.

Although the United States equity market was fairly valued, there were still good companies whose share prices were not performing as well as the broader market but constituted good investments for the long term.

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While compliance with the ISO 14001 standard may enable certain companies to strengthen market positions, the standard could act as a barrier to trade for companies that find it difficult or costly to comply with the standard.

Big companies. Big companies.

In addition, dormant WTCs in Gaza and Beirut were revitalized and are now providing training and market research services to companies in those regions.

The market is experiencing a gradual consolidation in the hands of the larger and better funded companies mainly based in North America and Europe.

The modernization of distribution services in Colombia has had a negative impact mostly on medium sized companies, which have been displaced from the market.

Whether networks of companies scattered throughout the world, of advocates, or of market oriented, ideological or ethnic groups, international relations increasingly comprise individual relations.

64. The greatest concern the Special Rapporteur heard was about private companies which offer advice, military training and security services on the international market.

So far, it is mostly the major multinational companies that have been able to develop any form of successful business in the Russian market.

It should facilitate further incorporation of Gazprom into the EU market through market liberalization and downstream integration. Yet it must also press for Gazprom s ultimate restructuring and real market entry into Russia for European companies, because Russia s unwillingness to do so guarantees energy insecurity for Europe.

All companies die, all companies.

But Europe managed to hold its share of global exports during that period more effectively than did the US. European companies have been more successful, on average, at maintaining their share of emerging market demand than have US companies.

For independent soluble coffee manufacturers in origin countries, a number of specialized trading companies act as intermediaries between processors and retailers, and in many cases these companies also provide technical assistance to assist the manufacturers in gaining market access.

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State owned companies now control far more oil and gas reserves than do the traditional private energy companies once known as the seven sisters. Many of these state owned companies in countries like Russia and Venezuela are not responding merely to market forces, but are using their newfound pricing power for political purposes.

Particular attention was drawn to new types of pressure which Japanese companies were currently facing in the global supply chain relating to the EU market.

By contrast, in the case of Brazil, a radical deregulation and rapid market opening subjected the local firms concerned to sudden competition with foreign companies.

In some cases, export companies have seen a more rapid growth than those producing solely for the domestic market or those in the service sector.

In the near future, private companies would become increasingly important as dominant players in the remote sensing data market those companies would have to find ways to sell their data to countries with limited funding resources for obtaining such data.

After dropping by more than half between mid June and mid January, oil prices in euros have since bounced back by a third, partly owing to the euro s sharp depreciation, which is making imports generally more expensive. The effect of that on households budgets and companies costs is hardly cause for celebration.