This increased administrative burden might cost foreign multinationals 'significant amounts of time, effort and money'.

Other multinationals, both foreign and American, agree.

As China's auto market has boomed, other foreign multinationals have created newer joint ventures involving much bigger commitments of money and equipment.

And many big foreign multinationals that trade as A.D.R.'s have such currency protection, because they do a lot of business here.

The more similarities between foreign and domestic multinationals, the more weight an investor may give to a low stock price.

The elite - bureaucrats as well as politicians - needed, it was asserted, alliances with local business and foreign multinationals.

Evans concluded that in some developing countries, the foreign multinationals might be a help and not a hindrance to the state.

Local private firms had built up a skilled work force that eventually drew in foreign multinationals on terms acceptable to the government.

During his time there the company built the Fab 14 plant and became one of the most prominent foreign multinationals in Ireland.

They both trailed Mr. Humala, 43, whose pledge to squeeze foreign multinationals helped give him 31 percent.