ilość książek w kategorii: 2541
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Oil and American Identity: A Culture of Dependency and Us Foreign Policy
ISBN: 9781784531492 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. American dependence on foreign oil has long been described as a serious threat to U.S. national security, and continues to be a political flashpoint even as domestic fracking eases the US reliance on imported energy. Oil and American Identity offers a fresh perspective on the subject by reframing energy dependency as a cultural discourse with intimate connections to American views on independence, freedom, consumption, abundance, progress and American exceptionalism. Through a detailed reading of primary literature, Sebastian Herbstreuth also shows how the dangers of foreign oil are linked to...
American dependence on foreign oil has long been described as a serious threat to U.S. national security, and continues to be a political flashpoint e...
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587,73 |
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China and Central Asia in the Post-Soviet Era: A Bilateral Approach
ISBN: 9781498518048 / Angielski / Twarda / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This manuscript examines Sino-Middle Eastern relations on a bilateral level. It highlights the depth of China s involvement in Central Asia with each country on a five dimensional approach: security cooperation, energy security, trade relations, political relations, and cultural relations. Regarding each of these criteria, Central Asia enjoys a strategic significance to China s national security, vital interests, territorial integrity, sovereignty, regime survival, and economic prosperity. China has been an integral part of the political developments on the Central Asian political scene for...
This manuscript examines Sino-Middle Eastern relations on a bilateral level. It highlights the depth of China s involvement in Central Asia with each ...
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455,49 |
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The President's Trade Agenda: 2015 Trade Policy Agenda
ISBN: 9781508748175 / Angielski / Miękka / 50 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. President Obama's trade policy seeks to promote growth, support more well-paying jobs in the United States, and strengthen the middle class. Trade policy done right - through proactive enforcement of existing agreements and the negotiation of new, high standard agreements - is among the nation's best tools to address the challenges of globalization and technological change and promote American interests and values. Trade has played an indispensable role in America's recovery from the Great Recession. Since the end of the recession in mid-2009, the increase in U.S. exports has contributed...
President Obama's trade policy seeks to promote growth, support more well-paying jobs in the United States, and strengthen the middle class. Trade pol...
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52,40 |
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What Every Member of the Trade Community Should Know About: The ABC's of Prior Disclosure
ISBN: 9781508804857 / Angielski / Miękka / 24 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The following information is provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection to help you understand the "basics" of prior disclosure. Simply put, this provision of law provides reduced penalties to parties who advise U.S. Customs and Border Protection ("CBP") of noncompliance with import laws and regulations, before CBP, or U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE"), discovers the possible noncompliance and notifies the party of the discovery of the possible noncompliance. In some cases, the penalty may be reduced to zero Valid prior disclosures can save you time and money, but all...
The following information is provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection to help you understand the "basics" of prior disclosure. Simply put, this ...
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52,40 |
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U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services January 2015
ISBN: 9781508807094 / Angielski / Miękka / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, through the Department of Commerce, announced today that the goods and services deficit was $41.8 billion in January, down $3.8 billion from $45.6 billion in December, revised. January exports were $189.4 billion, down $5.6 billion from December. January imports were $231.2 billion, down $9.4 billion from December. The January decrease in the goods and services deficit reflected a decrease in the goods deficit of $3.4 billion to $61.6 billion and an increase in the services surplus of $0.5 billion to $19.9 billion....
The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, through the Department of Commerce, announced today that the goods and services defic...
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52,40 |
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Contesting Trade in Central America: Market Reform and Resistance
ISBN: 9781477307649 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 2004, the United States, five Central American countries, and the Dominican Republic signed the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), signaling the region's commitment to a neoliberal economic model. For many, however, neoliberalism had lost its luster as the new century dawned, and resistance movements began to gather force. Contesting Trade in Central America is the first book-length study of the debate over CAFTA, tracing the agreement's drafting, its passage, and its aftermath across Central America. Rose J. Spalding draws on nearly two hundred interviews with... In 2004, the United States, five Central American countries, and the Dominican Republic signed the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), s... |
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137,09 |
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Pro-Reform Reconsideration of the CFTC Swaps Trading Rules: Return to Dodd-Frank
ISBN: 9781508848585 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This White Paper is written by Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or Commission) Commissioner J. Christopher Giancarlo, a public supporter of the swaps market reforms passed by Congress in Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Act, namely clearing swaps through central counterparties, reporting swaps to trade repositories and executing swaps transactions on regulated trading platforms. The author supports the CFTC's implementation of the first two reforms, but is critical of the CFTC's implementation of the third, as explained in this White Paper. This paper (a) analyzes flaws in the CFTC's...
This White Paper is written by Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or Commission) Commissioner J. Christopher Giancarlo, a public supporter of ...
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52,40 |
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Corporate Accountability, Access to Credit, and Access to Markets in China's Financial System - the Rules and Their Ramifications for U.S. Investors
ISBN: 9781497346932 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 2006, three of the four largest Chinese banks launched IPOs. Selling off a 10.5 percent stake in its business, the Bank of China issued over 25 billion shares raising $9.7 billion, ranking eighth in U.S. IPO history. This record level was invested despite corporate documents disclosing 75 cases of fraud and over $150 million in criminal conduct charges by employees. Chinese expansion into U.S. capital markets presents both opportunities and risks for companies and investors alike. There is substantial opportunity in the twin pledges made by the Chinese leadership to improve the...
In 2006, three of the four largest Chinese banks launched IPOs. Selling off a 10.5 percent stake in its business, the Bank of China issued over 25 bil...
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161,65 |
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2014 Report on Technical Barriers to Trade
ISBN: 9781511466394 / Angielski / Miękka / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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52,40 |
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2011 Report on Technical Barriers to Trade
ISBN: 9781511487375 / Angielski / Miękka / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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52,40 |
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The China Triangle: Latin America's China Boom and the Fate of the Washington Consensus
ISBN: 9780190246730 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since 1980, China has evolved from a poor and mostly rural society into one of the largest economies in the world. As it grew into a major industrial power, it demanded enormous amounts of steel for new factories and cities, copper for electronic wires, petroleum for cars and manufacturing plants, and soybeans and cattle to feed its workers. By the 1990s, many Latin American countries were riding China's coattails and beginning to prosper from the new demand. Ever since China entered the World Trade Organization at the turn of the century, Latin America supplied China with more and more of...
Since 1980, China has evolved from a poor and mostly rural society into one of the largest economies in the world. As it grew into a major industrial ...
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119,93 |
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China's Growing Demand for Agricultural Imports
ISBN: 9781511587174 / Angielski / Miękka / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. China is playing an important role in global agricultural markets as it emerges from isolation, liberalizes its economy, and experiences rising living standards. Policymakers, analysts, researchers, and the public need information about China's growing, multifaceted role in agricultural markets. This report examines China's recent emergence as a major agricultural importer and its implications for global markets. It analyzes trade patterns employing U.S. and Chinese trade statistics, summarizes alternative projections of future imports, and discusses how Chinese officials are adjusting their...
China is playing an important role in global agricultural markets as it emerges from isolation, liberalizes its economy, and experiences rising living...
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80,72 |
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Cotton Policy in China
ISBN: 9781511601498 / Angielski / Miękka / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This report examines China's 2011-13 attempt to maintain a high level of price support for its cotton producers, analyzing the policy's motivation, its consequences to date, and the impacts of various adjustment alternatives China might pursue. With China's wages rising rapidly in recent years, cotton production costs there have been rising faster than in the rest of the world. Rising costs both helped motivate China's policymakers to strengthen their price support for cotton production in 2011 and ensured that the policy ultimately proved unsustainable. After several years of sharply lower...
This report examines China's 2011-13 attempt to maintain a high level of price support for its cotton producers, analyzing the policy's motivation, it...
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68,59 |
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2015 National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers
ISBN: 9781511645393 / Angielski / Miękka / 442 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 2015 National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers
2015 National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers
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80,72 |
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Remanufactured Goods: An Overview of the U.S. and Global Industries, Markets, and Trade
ISBN: 9781511658270 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Remanufacturing is an industrial process that restores end-of-life goods to their original working condition. This report provides an overview of U.S. remanufactured goods industries and markets, estimates U.S. trade in remanufactured goods, and examines major factors that affected U.S. sales, trade, and investment during 2009-11. The United States is the largest remanufacturer in the world, and between 2009 and 2011, the value of U.S. remanufactured production grew by 15 percent to at least $43.0 billion, supporting 180,000 full-time U.S. jobs. The remanufacturing-intensive sectors that...
Remanufacturing is an industrial process that restores end-of-life goods to their original working condition. This report provides an overview of U.S....
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60,49 |
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African, Caribbean and Pacific Trade: Prospects for Stronger Performance and Cooperation
ISBN: 9789213149799 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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102,81 |
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Trade, Industrial Policy, and International Competition, Second Edition
ISBN: 9780773545960 / Angielski / Twarda / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Richard Harris s now classic study on trade and industrial policy was written for the Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada (also known as the Macdonald Commission). First published in 1985 when the Canadian economy faced dramatic changes arising from the emergence of manufacturing competitors among newly industrialized nations and increased protectionism in the US, its recommendations were instrumental in the negotiation of the North America Free Trade Agreement. Addressing the key issues surrounding the design and choice of policies for the Canadian...
Richard Harris s now classic study on trade and industrial policy was written for the Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects...
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450,59 |
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Trade, Industrial Policy, and International Competition, Second Edition
ISBN: 9780773545977 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Richard Harris s now classic study on trade and industrial policy was written for the Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada (also known as the Macdonald Commission). First published in 1985 when the Canadian economy faced dramatic changes arising from the emergence of manufacturing competitors among newly industrialized nations and increased protectionism in the US, its recommendations were instrumental in the negotiation of the North America Free Trade Agreement. Addressing the key issues surrounding the design and choice of policies for the Canadian...
Richard Harris s now classic study on trade and industrial policy was written for the Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects...
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151,83 |
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Latin America and the Asian Giants: Evolving Ties with China and India
ISBN: 9780815726968 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How an evolving relationship with China and India is changing Latin America's political and economic dynamics. In the years since China has adopted a "going global" strategy to promote its overseas investment, expand export markets, and gain much-needed access to natural resources abroad, Sino-Latin American relations have both deepened and broadened at an unexpectedly rapid pace. The main driver behind this sea change in bilateral relations has been economic complementarity, with resource-rich countries in Latin America exporting primary goods to the Asian giants' growing market... How an evolving relationship with China and India is changing Latin America's political and economic dynamics. In the years since China has ... |
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146,94 |
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Redesigning Canadian Trade Policies for New Global Realities: Volume 6
ISBN: 9780886452070 / Angielski / Miękka / 658 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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205,71 |