Sentences with phrase «volume of trades encourages»

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And while the Dead's records may never have sold in huge volume, taping encouraged a community of fans who would collect and trade homemade concert recordings, obsessing over the band's ever - changing set lists and improvisational approach.

In 2016, the Far East Federal District's trade with China amounted to $ 6 billion, accounting for 25 percent of its foreign trade volumes.47 In a meeting with the vice premier of China's State Council, Putin stated that Chinese investment in the Russian Far East has exceeded $ 3 billion since 2015.48 According to Minister for the Development of the Russian Far East Alexander Galushka, as of November 2017, the number of projects in the PDAs and the Free Port of Vladivostok involving Chinese capital tripled in the past year to twenty - eight projects worth $ 4 billion that account for 85 percent of foreign investment attracted to the Russian Far East since 2015.49 At the Third Eastern Economic Forum in September 2017 — an annual conference to attract foreign investment to the Russian Far East — Putin even used these investment figures in jest to encourage Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to increase Japanese investments in the Russian Far East.50

The increasing reliance on foreign trade has steadily increased the volume of both imports and exports, and is driving supply chain reconfiguration to encourage expanded activity in both existing and emerging port locations.