piece goods

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In Thailand, Japanese cotton piece goods had been virtually driven from the market by Chinese prices, which were as much as 15% lower.

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Severely affected were Japanese mills which used to export large quantities of cheap piece goods to India.

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Boldly the supervisor ordered seized vast quantities of smuggled Japanese and Korean imports, which include rice, bean-cake, bean-oil, cotton piece goods, sugar and cement.

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This depression Mr. Knickerbocker dramatized thus: in 1913 exports of British cotton piece goods exceeded seven billion square yards; last year they were less than two and one-half billion square yards!

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Fixing her mouth like saying prune, she just went on studying the piece goods.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns