Word: barriers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...trade with the mainland now totals only about $1 billion a year. Says Ping-ti Ho, an expert on China at the University of Chicago: "The reason the Chinese have not bought from the U.S. is largely related to the absence of full diplomatic relations. Normalization will remove this barrier...
Having declared that ideology should be no barrier to economic improvement, Neto is now moving to ensure that the government bureaucracy does not stand in the way either. In the past few days the Prime Minister's job as well as the two posts of deputy prime minister have been abolished as excessive, and two officials of the inept ministry of internal commerce were replaced...
...swim the second half of the race faster than the first)," explained Bernal afterwards. "If he can hold :50s for the last five 100s (the splits needed to go 9:00 in the event), then we think that with the excitement of a big meet he can break that barrier...
American businessmen and some Government officials take a different view. Some argue that the Japanese language constitutes a trade barrier. Assistant Commerce Secretary Frank Weil agrees that the technical quotas and tariff restrictions have now been largely dismantled and that "there are really few restrictions on manufactured goods." But, he adds, they have been replaced by something different: "a mentality on the part of the average Japanese businessman that says 'I've been told for a hundred years I shouldn't import. I can make it here.' It's a sort of conditioned reflex." Says...
...hidden barrier, Weil agrees, is "the gigantic Japanese bureaucracy, with its bias against foreign manufactured goods." This shows itself in many ways. Government agencies like the railways and telegraph and telegram systems, which spend roughly $52 billion a year, have been under orders to "buy national," and although this restriction has been eased in recent months, old habits die hard and few foreign orders have been placed. And when the government does not want to buy foreign, wholesalers and industrial buyers steer clear of imports as well. At the same time, customs officers have been known to effectively shut...