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Domestic tradeCommerce within a country; wholesale and retail trade.Similar MatchesDomestic 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 International Sales CorporationDomestic International Sales CorporationA type of U.S. corporation, authorized in 1971, with income primarily from exports. Usually wholly owned U.S. subsidiaries, DISCs had special treatment in borowing or taxation. A 1976 GATT case found against the U.S., which reached a compromise settlement with the EC in 1981. DISC was replaced in 1984 by foreign sales corporations. 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 requirementDomestic content requirementA requirement that goods sold in a country contain a certain minimum of domestic value added. Domestic 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. Further SuggestionsDomestic content protectiongross domestic product Domestic law Gross domestic product Domestic Domestic market Gross domestic product (GDP) Net domestic product Domestic International Sales Corporation (DISC) Qualified Domestic Relations Order (QDRO) Domestic bonds Domestic corporation Domestic distortions argument for protection Domestic support |
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