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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 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. DomesticDomesticFrom or in one's own country. A domestic producer is one that produces inside the home country. A domestic price is the price inside the home country. Opposite of "foreign" or "world." Qualified Domestic Relations Order (QDRO)Qualified Domestic Relations Order (QDRO)A judgment, decree, or order that gives a pension plan participant access to retirement assets that must be used to pay an ex-spouse or dependent children. 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). Further SuggestionsDomestic distortions argument for protectionDomestic International Sales Corporation (DISC) Domestic trade Domestic International Sales Corporation Gross domestic product (GDP) Domestic support gross domestic product Domestic corporation Net domestic product Domestic credit Domestic content requirement Domestic market Gross domestic product Domestic bonds |
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