If you match these volumes up with a comparison of
landed costs of similar crude import streams into the U.S. vs. the prices of Canadian crudes, you can get a sense for the foregone value.
Between June 2012 and July 2013, the difference between
the landed costs of Saudi Light oil into the U.S. and the price of light oil at Edmonton was $ 18.48 per barrel, while the difference in costs between Mexican Maya landed in the U.S. and Western Canada Select heavy blend at Hardisty, AB, was $ 29.02 per barrel.
Too often, the true
landed costs of shipments are hard to track for companies with low logistical visibility.
Asked if the NNPC was subsidising the product being imported, the Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, NNPC, Mr. Ndu Ughamadu, could not comment on it, saying only the PPPRA was in the position to give information about
the landing cost of petrol.
Not exact matches
This metric measures the
cost of landing a customer.
In simple terms, add up the
cost of marketing and sales — including salaries and overhead — and divide by the number
of customers you
land during a specific time frame.
Their
costs for capital, labour,
land, energy and other resources are subsidized such that they generate huge retained earnings, much
of which is being reinvested in foreign real assets like Canada's oilpatch, says U
of T's Dobson.
Whether you're having trouble
landing new clients, or are dealing with the unforeseen consequences
of overlooking important startup
costs, the fact remains that the only solution is to take aggressive and calculated action in order to reduce expenditure and increase the availability
of income so that it can be used to make crucial investments and pertinent debt repayments.
Morken says he expects those improvements to attract more first - time smartphone users — the college students,
cost - conscious Millennials, bargain hunters and
land - line cord - cutters who comprise the bulk
of Republic's customer base.
Yet in many areas, especially cities, these residences on wheels may not be economical to own, because
of zoning regulations, high
land costs and other drawbacks.
Last September, Edward Rogers revealed plans for a $ 1.5 - billion 10 - tower condo project on
land in Mississauga, Ont., originally purchased for a radio transmitter in the 1960s at the
cost of $ 170,000.
If you add the lower
of these tolls into the calculation, and assume we'd have received similar prices on the west coast as the
landed U.S. prices I used above, you're still looking at $ 8 to $ 12 million per day in transportation
costs.
He added that a combination
of cheap
land, reasonable energy prices and other incentives means that, despite higher manufacturing
costs, he can still make more money by making glass in the U.S. than by exporting Chinese - made panes to the U.S. market.
The tubes would be elevated on pylons, and generally follow Interstate 5 between San Francisco and L.A. Musk says that would cut down on the
cost of land acquisition and rights
of way.
That's how you get a more balanced culture as well since Hunters tend to break a lot
of china in order to
land a deal at any
cost while Farmers tend to be far more steady and reluctant to make waves inside the organization.
Often these figures leave out important items like debt, transportation tolls and the
cost of land.
Worst
of all, the profit you make from downsizing can be quickly eaten up by moving
costs, real estate agent fees,
land transfer tax and the lawyers fees.
That year, drillers packed into the Permian basin in western Texas, where the
cost of producing oil is low but the price tag on
land — and the companies who own it — has skyrocketed.
That sounds about right for a tiny home, though that probably doesn't account for the
cost of land.
Take advantage
of China's lower plant
costs, typically just 40 % (in
land, buildings and machinery)
of what a comparable facility would
cost in Canada.
«It's the quality
of life, location,
cost of the
land, the productivity
of the people.
The other problem with the GOP proposal is it allows companies to subtract the
cost of labor and
land, as well as input goods, from the amount that gets taxed.
Like Elon Musk's company, Blue Origin is engineering its rockets to safely
land back on earth so they can be reused, thus shaving tens
of millions
of dollars off the
cost of each launch.
Land - the first element of cost in any wine is the land that the grapes are grown
Land - the first element
of cost in any wine is the
land that the grapes are grown
land that the grapes are grown on.
If Tuesday's attempt is a success, and all three
of its reusable boosters
land themselves — a huge
cost - saving shift in an industry that's used to discarding rockets after one launch — Musk said it could be «game over» for other heavy - lift systems.
Where SpaceX seems near mastering the art
of landing and reusing large rockets, Rocket Lab wants to produce smaller ones, using lower -
cost methods like 3 - D printing.
A square meter
of land costs between $ 155 and $ 226 around China's main industrial hubs, but it can be as cheap as $ 20 in Alabama and $ 14 in Tennessee and North Carolina.
To cover the
cost of equipment and Alta's services, the company helped New York City
land a $ 41 million sponsorship from Citibank, whose logo will appear on bikes and stations.
Boston is among a list
of 20 finalists to
land Amazon's second headquarters, which would create about 50,000 new jobs and
cost more than $ 5 billion.
«A lot
of the
costs which exist today will be exactly the same: the fuel, the
landing fees at airports, air traffic control fees,» says Robert Kokonis, president
of consulting firm AirTrav Inc..
Convenience Stores It runs counter to the dominance
of low -
cost franchises, but three convenience stores
landed in our top 25, thanks to impressive growth.
With an average
of seven children per family, and with the
cost of agricultural
land rising in the Amish heartlands
of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana and Ontario, not every young Amish will one day farm his own tract
of land.
The fees are one
of many factors driving up the
cost of buying or renting a home, including income inequality, restrictive zoning, low construction productivity, a historic slowdown in housing production, and high prices for
land, materials, and labor.
It urged avoidance
of deals that are managed by a paid promoter, involve
land acquired within the past 36 months, and claim deductions
of more than 2.5 times the property's acquisition
cost.
The charge reflects the direct operating
cost of the aircraft, including fuel, additives and lubricants, an allocable allowance for airframe, engine and APU maintenance and restoration, crew travel expenses, on board catering, and trip - related
landing / hangar / ramp fees and parking
costs.
You stated your interest in a city where you can grow your company to 50,000 employees over the next 20 years, a home base that can hold your interest... a strong sense
of place, a rich cultural life, great transit systems, smart young people and plenty
of infrastructure - ready
land that is close to both the business center and top universities... density, walkability, and diversity... some
of the nation's finest universities... tech - savvy millennials... Philadelphia, the birthplace
of America, offers all
of these desirable attributes at a more affordable
cost.
Untaxed
land value is paid to banks, which in turn lend their mortgage receipts out to bid up property prices all the more — while obliging the government to tax labor and sales, raising the
cost of labor and the price
of goods and services.
[23] By taxing the
land's rental income and that
of subsoil minerals provided freely by nature, industry could free itself from the sales and excise taxes that raised the
cost of living and doing business.
Their labor theory
of value found its counterpart in the «economic rent theory
of prices» to distinguish the necessary
costs of production and doing business (reduced ultimately to the value
of labor) from «unearned income» consisting mainly
of land rent, monopoly rent, and financial interest and fees.
Builders say they can't lower prices much or build cheaper starter homes because
of the high
costs of land, labor and materials.
Yet by the late 1980s, when the real estate bubble was still being inflated, household and corporate replacement
costs of buildings left
land with only about 28 percent
of total property values.
By contrast, valuing these same structures on a replacement -
cost basis,
land value rose slowly but steadily from the end
of World War II to 1989, from 20 to about 27 percent
of overall corporate real estate values.
Making the same adjustment for residential housing that the Fed made for corporate buildings — in valuing them at their historical
cost — would raise residential
land values to 60 percent
of the total (equal to the 1990 figure).
Today's official statistics attribute so much
of the price rise to the inflation
of construction
costs that in 1994 the value
of all corporately - owned
land in the United States was a negative $ 4 billion!
So economic analysis is trivialized if it only takes into account direct production
costs reducible to labor, not taxes or «economic rent» as an element
of price with no counterpart in technologically necessary production
costs —
land rent, monopoly rent (including bank credit - creating privileges), interest charges and kindred transfer payments to rentiers.
Both all - time highs are being fueled by steady demand from move - up buyers coupled with the rising
costs of land, labor and materials.
Patch
of Land's lending platform achieves their mission to reduce the
cost and increase the efficiency
of getting these deals approved and funded.
An industry whose investors deal primarily with the development
of land sites wishes to minimize the statistical treatment
of land, in order to depict their capital gains as resulting from
cost inflation and hence the reproduction
costs of buildings.
Although Site C would
cost $ 9 billion and would destroy
land of great ecological value and significance to First Nations, Premier Gordon Campbell and his successor, Christy Clark, insisted it was necessary to generate jobs and clean energy.
Western Europe had developed by protecting its industry and labor, and taxing away the
land rent and other revenue that had no counterpart in a necessary
cost of production.