product substitutes

product substitutes

products which customers regard as fulfilling the same needs although they are technically dissimilar, e.g. butter and margarine. See ELASTICITY OF DEMAND.
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Ministry of Industry and Foreign Trade started working on eliminating low-quality imports, achieving the target of the exports' development plan, saving hard currency and depending on the local product substitutes, in an attempt to decrease the deficit in the trade balance.
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Such societies may develop a matrix of product substitutes from the available indigenous product mix and guide the consumers to shift from one product to another when the prices of a certain product are being unscrupulously worked up.
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