The cheapest offer could be coming from a very unreliable supplier with a bad past performance or a criminal record or from a supplier who offers goods of shoddy quality.
The Soviet Union continued to be the predominant supplier of raw materials, machinery, and technical and technological assistance.
One of the basic elements in industrial consumer-supplier relations has been the annual contract for estimated material and equipment requirements needed to complete the annual production quota.
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Steam ploughs were needed for cultivating the soil, especially since the rinderpest of 1864 had killed off all the cattle, England again being the chief supplier of these machines.
The censor suggested that every convicted opium smoker should be sentenced to eighty strokes of the bamboo, and anybody refusing to give the name of his supplier to a hundred strokes and three years of exile.
It is most probable that Russia, just like any other country, enjoys certain natural advantages which enable her to act as a supplier of certain kinds of commodities on foreign markets.
First, as to its value as a supplier of the necessary elements of plant-food.
Romania was to be assigned the role of a supplier of raw materials and agricultural produce for the more industrially developed members (see ch.
Within this organization Romania had acted largely as a supplier of agricultural products, petroleum, and other raw materials and depended on the more industrialized member states for most manufactured goods.
Through some cause or other a blight seemed to have come over her garden, as almost all the trees and plants ceased flowering; she had therefore given up her place as the flower-supplier of the royal household.
Now, the garden belonged to an old widow who was in former years the chief flower-supplier to the king of that country.
Japan is Indonesia's most important customer and supplier of aid.
Mexico may not require that an enterprise attain a level of national value added in excess of 20 percent of its total sales as one of the conditions to qualify as a national supplier or enterprise of the autoparts industry.
Mexico shall grant national supplier status to an independent maquiladora that requests such status and meets the requirements for that status set out in the existing Auto Decree.
Russia is emerging as a major oil supplier and a serious challenge to the hegemony of Saudi Arabia and OPEC.
