A shrinkage in export and import-competing manufacturing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Inequality and the China Trade] Reference

And if your goal is to shift domestic resources toward the manufacture of import-competing goods, the weak dollar also helps.    From Wordnik.com.  [November 2003 ~ Angry Bear] Reference

On his first point, there is no theorem that guarantees that the partial-equilibrium losses to import-competing producers “are more than offset by gains to consumers from lower prices.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Debate Over the Effects of Free Trade Heats Up] Reference

"Activity in South Africa was probably supported by the recovery in the global economy, the bright prospects for exporters and a pick-up in the demand for goods produced by import-competing industries.".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

One might guess, for instance, that on average women tend to have less education than men, and lower levels of skills, or that they tend to be over-represented in terms of their employment in import-competing industries e.g., the textiles and apparel industries.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gender Gap of Economics, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

After all, if you believe higher prices for your industries are good for all kind of dynamic and political effects, why not apply the same reasoning to your import-competing industries as well - especially if they are the only industries you have your exports being dominated by traditional commodities.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Altig on the Efficiency Gains from Free Trade and Kash on the Distributional Aspects] Reference

Export interests are far more influential now relative to import-competing groups.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr Roy's Thoughts] Reference

Export interests are far more powerful than before relative to pure import-competing industries.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

U.S. import-competing and export industries spend three times the national average on industrial R&D.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

It shifts your employment and production toward export and import-competing tradeables-producing industries.    From Wordnik.com.  [US Market Commentary from Seeking Alpha] Reference

These are necessary to stimulate investment, employment and competitiveness - particularly among exporters and import-competing industries.    From Wordnik.com.  [IOL: News]

These are necessary to stimulate investment, employment and competitiveness -- particularly among exporters and import-competing industries.    From Wordnik.com.  [AllAfrica News: Latest] Reference

Exchange rate protectionism, by contrast, protects all import-competing industries, across the board, whether they deserve protection or not.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

The trade deficit imposes a significant tax on GDP growth by moving workers from export and import-competing industries to other sectors of the economy.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

One is that the tradables sector, which is exporters, tourism, and import-competing industries-the earning side of the economy-went into recession in about 2004.    From Wordnik.com.  [NZ On Screen] Reference

Moreover, nominal revaluation would probably exacerbate the squeeze on wages as export-oriented and import-competing enterprises would respond by attempting to lower unit-wage costs.    From Wordnik.com.  [MRZine.org] Reference

U.S. import-competing and export industries spend three-times the national average on industrial R&D, and encourage more investments in skills and education than other sectors of the economy.    From Wordnik.com.  [statesmanjournal.com - Top Stories] Reference

U.S. import-competing and export industries spend at least three-times the national average on industrial R&D, and encourage more investments in skills and education than other sectors of the economy.    From Wordnik.com.  [US Market Commentary from Seeking Alpha] Reference

The high Australian dollar is also playing havoc with some of Australia's exporting and import-competing sectors such tourism, while there are also still significant risks around the international outlook.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference

While some skeptics have been warning that the strengthening dollar will undermine the profitability of import-competing companies and some commodity exporters, most institutional investors say they are buying in to the rally.    From Wordnik.com.  [NEWS.com.au | Top Stories] Reference

It had created a major source of demand for New Zealand dollars, reducing the downward pressure on the exchange rate ... .which might have driven a transfer of resources into the exporting and import-competing sectors of the economy.    From Wordnik.com.  [whoar.co.nz] Reference

The structure of the Chinese economy will shift as domestic demand grows in importance, with a larger service sector, more emphasis on light industry, and less emphasis on heavy, capital intensive export and import-competing industries.    From Wordnik.com.  [NewsBlaze.com Current News - Top Stories] Reference

In this alternative scenario, the U.S. has to move about ten million workers out of currently-favored sectors -- construction, home-equity-credit financed consumer expenditures, and so on -- into export and import-competing manufactures.    From Wordnik.com.  [US Market Commentary from Seeking Alpha] Reference

While some skeptics have been warning that the strengthening Australian dollar will undermine the profitability of import-competing companies and some commodity exporters, most institutional investors say they are buying in to the rally.    From Wordnik.com.  [AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories] Reference

Dani wants to argue that the first is good -- that there are powerful wedges which make emerging-markets countries, especially, prone to have too small a share of employment and production in those export and import-competing tradeables-producing industries.    From Wordnik.com.  [US Market Commentary from Seeking Alpha] Reference

The same version of the 'Dutch disease' - the crowding out of the non-financial internationally exposed sectors (exporting and import-competing) by the excessive growth of the financial sector and the construction industry - occurred in both countries, again to a greater extent in Iceland than in the UK, but to an highly undesirable extent even in the UK.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crawl Across the Ocean] Reference

"These are necessary to stimulate investment, employment and competitiveness, particularly among exporters and import-competing industries.    From Wordnik.com.  [IOL: News]