What is skimming?
A method of pricing, generally used for foreign markets, in which a company seeks to reach a segment of the market that is relatively price insensitive and thus willing to pay a premium price for the value received.
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Pricing for International Markets
- What is demand elasticity?
- What factors influence international pricing?
- Which out of the four types of countertrade is the most beneficial to the seller?
- Why is counter trade increasing?
- Why do governments scrutinize transfer pricing arrangements so carefully?
- What are the alternative objectives in setting transfer prices?
- In what various ways does the government set prices? Why do they engage in such activities?
- Why has dumping become such an issue in recent years?
- How can a marketer adjust prices to accommodate exchange-rate fluctuations?
- Do value-added taxes discriminate against imported goods?
- Why are companies generally not "allowed" to perform price fixing, but governments are?
- How can the problem of price escalation be counteracted?
- What is transfer pricing?
- What is dumping?
- What is price escalation?
- What is parallel imports?
- What are the causes of price escalation? Do they differ for exports and goods produced and sold in a foreign country?
- Why is it so difficult to control consumer prices when selling overseas?
- What are the causes and solutions for parallel imports and their effect on price?