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UNFAIR COMPETITION: A wide assortment of business practices that are deceptive and dishonest, and usually hamper competition. Examples of unfair competition include false or misleading advertising, price discrimination, bribery, and even industrial espionage. These practices and many, many more are illegal according to antitrust law, specifically the Federal Trade Commission Act (1914).
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TARIFFS Taxes imposed by the government of one nation on imports from other nations. The primary goal of tariffs is to reduce imports and increase domestic production. As taxes, tariffs raise the demand price and lower the supply price, and thus reduce the quantity exchanged. Tariffs are one of three common foreign trade policies designed to discourage imports and/or encourage exports. The other two are import quotas and export subsidies.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time at a garage sale seeking to buy either a birthday greeting card for your grandmother or a coffee cup commemorating yesterday. Be on the lookout for florescent light bulbs that hum folk songs from the sixties.
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The 1909 Lincoln penny was the first U.S. coin with the likeness of a U.S. President.
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"If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. " -- Martin Luther King Jr., clergyman
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ISIC
International Standard Industrial Classification
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