- High-end U.S. wood products make music...and more...in
Indonesia.
In 2001, Indonesia imported a total of $107 million worth of wood products. Over a third of the imports were from the United States. Indonesia exported more than $1 billion in furniture ($742 million), wooden floors ($201 million) and musical instruments ($100 million). After U.S. exports of wood products to ......
- Foreign direct investment in the United
States.
In current dollars, the average annual inflow of direct investment into the United States during 198-90 was more than five times large as in 1975-80. After decades as the leading source country for outward direct investment, by the mid-1980s the United States had replaced Canada as the world's number one ......
- World economic situation and short-term
prospects.
Following two years of slow economic growth, the recovery for the world economy in 1993 is projected to be sluggish. A protracted slowdown in Europe and an unexpectedly sharp weakening of activity in Japan have contributed to significant downward revisions to the output projections for many countries for 1993.(1) Against ......
- Canada's new foreign investment entity
rules.
On October 30, 2003, the Canadian Department of Finance released a fourth draft of complex tax legislation on the treatment of direct or indirect investments in foreign entities by Canadian taxpayers (FIE Rules). (1) This article updates an article on the third version of the FIE Rules, (2) providing an ......
- Canada's New Foreign Investment Entity Rules
On October 30, 2003, the Canadian Department of Finance released a fourth draft of complex tax legislation on the treatment of direct or indirect investments in foreign entities by Canadian taxpayers (FIE Rules).1 This article updates an article on the third version of the FIE Rules,2 providing an overview of ......
- The North American Common Market is
here.
It's NAFTA or never International trade is never a zero-sum game, however much politicians like to see it that way. CE gathered U.S. and Mexican CEOs to examine how best to net the benefits of economic union among Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. When Washington and Ottawa signed a free ......
- U.S. health expenditure performance: an international
comparison and data update.
Introduction In this article, we examine expenditure trends and the economic performance of the health systems of the 24 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries with special emphasis on 6: Canada, France, Germany (the former Federal Republic of Germany), Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Because ......