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Domestic lawThe laws and legal system of a country, which may be constrained by international obligations such as WTO membership. Sometimes a domestic law is inconsistent with such obligations and must be changed. This may be seen as a threat to the country's sovereignty.Similar MatchesDomestic creditDomestic creditCredit extended by a country's central bank to domestic borrowers, including the government and commercial banks. In the United States, the largest component by far is the Fed's holdings of U.S. government bonds, but it also makes some short-term loans to banks to use as their reserves. Domestic seriesDomestic seriesNonmarketable, interest and noninterest-bearing securities issued periodically by the Treasury to the Resolution Funding Corporation (RFC) for investment of funds authorized under section 21B of the Federal Home Loan Bank Act. Domestic resource costDomestic resource costA measure, in terms of real resources, of the opportunity cost of producing or saving foreign exchange. It is an ex ante measure of comparative advantage, used to evaluate projects and policies. The term was introduced to the economics literature by Bruno (1963, 1972). Domestic content protectionDomestic content protectionUse of trade policies such as domestic content requirements to increase the portion of a product's value that is provided by domestic factors of production, either in direct production or through produced inputs. Domestic supportDomestic supportAn policy that assists domestic industry, including a subsidy to production, payment not to produce, price support, and other means of increasing the income of producers. Further SuggestionsQualified Domestic Relations Order (QDRO)Domestic International Sales Corporation (DISC) Domestic corporation Domestic Net domestic product Domestic trade Domestic content requirement Domestic market Domestic distortions argument for protection Gross domestic product Domestic International Sales Corporation gross domestic product Domestic bonds Gross domestic product (GDP) |
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