low-cost producer

collocation in English

meaningsoflow-costandproducer

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low-cost
adjective
uk
/ˌləʊˈkɒst/
us
/ˌloʊˈkɑːst/
cheap:
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producer
noun[C]
uk
/prəˈdʒuː.sər/
us
/prəˈduː.sɚ/
a person who makes the practical and financial arrangements needed to make a film, play, or television or ...
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(Definition oflow-costandproducerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This was a conflict between a high-cost producer and alow-costproducer.
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Consequently, after the establishment of the agreement, the importing country would acquire products from a higher-cost producer, instead of thelow-costproducerfrom which it was importing until then.
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Therefore, in a sense, we have given one third of our market to low-cost producers.
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These industries have faced a declining world market, high costs and overheads and more productive, more efficient, low-cost producers throughout the world.
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Only in that way will we prosper in competition with low-cost producers.
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Low-cost producers in those countries can exert on our manufacturers competitive pressures that we have not experienced hitherto.
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The object of the quota system was to limit the expansion of imports from certain low-cost producers of textiles into certain colonial dependencies.
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With his knowledge of the problems, he will realise that the multi-fibre arrangement is primarily designed to restrict imports from low-cost producers.
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I recognise that nearly all low-cost producers at present maintain high tariffs on textiles and clothing products.
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By volume, about one third of the textile and clothing products used or sold here come in from low-cost producers.
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The overwhelming proportion of our textile imports from low-cost producers are under some kind of restraint at the present time.
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They are therefore low-cost producers, and they are low cost for another reason.
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So the uniform price is not the outcome of competition between high-cost and low-cost producers, but of the introduction of a purchasing system which makes such competition unnecessary.
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Since then, it has grown to be one among the top low-cost producers of iron ore in the world.
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For the first time there was stiff competition from low-cost producers around the globe.
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