indirect import — UK US noun [C or U] COMMERCE, ECONOMICS ► a situation in which a company buys products from someone in another country using an intermediary (= a person or organization that arranges business agreements), or a product that is bought in this way:… … Financial and business terms
direct importing — direct import UK US noun [C] COMMERCE, ECONOMICS ► a situation in which a company, etc. buys products directly from someone in another country, without using another person or organization to make arrangements for them, or a product that is… … Financial and business terms
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Offset agreement — Defense offset agreements are legal trade practices in the aerospace and military industries. These commercial practices do not need state regulations but, since the purchasers are mostly military departments of sovereign nations comparable to… … Wikipedia
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Quicken Interchange Format — (QIF) is an open specification for reading and writing financial data to media (i.e. files). A QIF file typically has the following structure:!Type:type identifier string [single character line code] Literal String Data ... ^ [single character… … Wikipedia
