If I purchase a book for the same price from a retailer and a remote seller, the remote seller's freight cost would be paid by my own state of Texas.
NERA, an economic consultancy, concluded that haulage rates do not reflect the true cost of freight transport.
These are the impediments to the movement of people and goods brought on by Sept. 11: the wasted hours of employees showing IDs to get into their building, the delays at the airport, the backlog of trucks at the border, the increased cost of air freight, the dead weight of higher insurance premiums.
These are the impediments to the movement of people and goods brought on by Sept. 11: the wasted hours of employees showing proof of identification to get in their building, the delays at the airport, the backlog of trucks at the border, the increased cost of air freight, the dead weight of higher insurance premiums.
India was allowing the local Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL) and some other state refineries to import Iranian crude oil on cost, insurance and freight basis wherein Tehran was to arrange for ships and insurance, and would receive no profit from the sale.
You evidently believe that remote sellers should have their additional freight expense (the retailer's cost of business) subsidized by sales taxes (state government revenue).
And thus the spectacle of slow cross-country trains that should have been allowed to die when Amtrak took over from the freight railroads in 1971 but continue to roll at the cost of vast subsidies with little or no public benefit.
Kumar realized that the railways had traditionally overpriced petroleum freight rates and quickly offered Ambani a 20% discount on his cost.
An inevitable increase in freight costs is not going to wipe out the benefits of manufacturing in low-cost countries abroad.
Proponents note that the overall cost of the project would be recouped within a few decades, as the volume of tunnel freight transport activity increased, reaching an estimated 3 percent of the world's total physical cargo or 100 million tons annually.
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