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KillerApps Micro: Trade and Foreign Exchange
01/30/15
Prostitution has proven to be an effective hedge against high inflation induced by subsidies and price control in Venezuela.

01/03/13
Chicken feet, long considered a waste product in the US, have become a profit center for the high-volume low-profit US chicken industry in the China export market. But this export trade is not exempted from political whims.

05/13/10
Over-extended American consumers provided the ultimate market for consumer goods exported from low-wage countries that are willing to sell on credit.

02/27/07
To enhance profit, businesses often sell non-interoperable versions of the same products in different markets.

02/08/07
In a buyer's market with many potential sellers, China exacts technology transfers as a condition of entry into its lucrative mass market.

06/22/06
US subsidies to domestic sugar cane and sugar beet growers have resulted in huge collateral damage to domestic industries and overseas producers.

06/25/04
U. S. shrimpers use anti-dumping protection to resist competitive pressure from more efficient Asian shrimp farmers and to gain de facto subsidy.

08/30/01
American companies are increasingly outsourcing back-office and software design work to highly skilled but lower-cost English-speaking foreign workers.

11/05/99
Gray markets appear when cheaper goods in one market are diverted to compete with more expensive but similar goods in another market.