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US BILLION [13 records]

Record 1 2024-05-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Foreign Trade
  • Government Contracts
CONT

Two-way trade in goods and services totaled USD [US dollar] 678 billion, and this trade directly and indirectly supports millions of U. S. [United States] jobs.

Key term(s)
  • two way trade in goods and services

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commerce extérieur
  • Marchés publics
CONT

Le commerce bilatéral de biens et de services entre le Canada et les États-Unis s'élevait à plus de 1,3 mille milliards de dollars en 2022.

Spanish

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Record 2 2012-09-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Banking
  • Currency and Foreign Exchange
  • Finance
  • Foreign Trade
DEF

... a convention whereby two units (general government or credit institutions) agree, at the request of one of them, to exchange the national currency of the unit requesting the swap for foreign currency at an agreed rate of exchange and at the same time of repayment for the reverse transaction to take place at a previously agreed rate of exchange.

CONT

Swap arrangement ... is designed to permit a central bank to intervene in the foreign exchange market so as to retard speculative pressures on its currency.

CONT

The Bank of Canada and the Federal Reserve have agreed to extend their expanded US $30 billion swap facility(reciprocal currency arrangement) to 30 October 2009. This expanded swap facility, originally announced on 29 September 2008, was initially set to expire on 30 April 2009.

CONT

A swap line is another term for a temporary reciprocal currency arrangement between central banks.

Key term(s)
  • reciprocal credit agreement

French

Domaine(s)
  • Banque
  • Politique monétaire et marché des changes
  • Finances
  • Commerce extérieur
DEF

[...] contrat par lequel deux parties conviennent d'échanger des flux financiers sur une certaine période et selon une formule préétablie.

CONT

La SFI [Société Financière Internationale] accorde à la BISA [Banco Industrial S.A] des lignes de crédit réciproques.

Key term(s)
  • facilité de crédit croisé
  • contrat d'échange
  • accord d'échange

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Operaciones bancarias
  • Política monetaria y mercado de cambios
  • Finanzas
  • Comercio exterior
OBS

Entre bancos centrales.

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Record 3 2010-07-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Transport of Oil and Natural Gas
  • Long-Distance Pipelines
CONT

India will need to triple its oil production over the next 15 years to meet the growing demand. The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas has estimated that to meet the projected oil demand of the early 21st century, an investment of $US 100-150 billion will be needed over the next 15 years. Distribution infrastructure, such as cross-country pipelines, port terminals, and tankages will have to be developed on a massive scale to meet the projected oil requirements.

OBS

cross-country pipeline: This more generic name is implicitly used in an Indian context.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transport du pétrole et du gaz naturel
  • Canalisations à grande distance
OBS

transindien : Par analogie avec «transcanadien», «transsibérien», «transaustralien», etc. (voir le Grand dictionnaire encyclopédique Larousse (source LAROG, 1982) et Le Grand Dictionnaire Robert (ROBER-CD, 1994). En fait, la locution adjectivale générique anglaise «cross-country» pourrait se rendre en français par le préfixe «trans-» suivi de l'adjectif dérivant du nom de pays traversé.

Spanish

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Record 4 2009-10-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Astrophysics and Cosmography
  • Radiological Physics (Theory and Application)
CONT

What was the origin of that background cosmic noise?... astrophysicists proved that it was the last echo of the great explosion and a final trace left by the initial radiation. Taking as reference the most distant galaxies which move away from us at great speed and whose red radiation is reaching us now, they concluded that the event had occurred about 13. 7 billion years ago.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Astrophysique et cosmographie
  • Physique radiologique et applications

Spanish

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Record 5 2008-08-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of National Laws and Regulations (Non-Canadian)
  • Agriculture - General
OBS

A Bill which contemplates a series of policies and programs aimed at regulating levels of agricultural production and promoting the sale of agricultural surpluses. This Bill, which was first introduced in 1945, is updated every five years, the last reform being in 1995.

OBS

The 2007 US Farm Bill(Farm Bill Extension Act of 2007, or Farm, Nutrition, and Bioenergy Act of 2007) is a $288 billion, five-year farm subsidy bill being considered by the United States Congress as a continuation of the 2002 Farm Bill.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de lois et de règlements nationaux non canadiens
  • Agriculture - Généralités

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Títulos de leyes y reglamentos nacionales no canadienses
  • Agricultura - Generalidades
OBS

Ley que contempla una serie de políticas y programas destinados a regular los niveles de producción agropecuaria y a promocionar la venta de los saldos de exportación. Esta ley que rige desde 1945 es modificada cada 5 años, siendo la última reforma en 1995. La esencia de la Ley Agrícola de los EE.UU., son los programas del gobierno federal, que otorgan apoyo a los productores y estabilizan los ingresos de la actividad agropecuaria. Habitualmente, esta Ley incluye además programas que influyen en la conservación del suelo y los recursos hídricos, forestación, ayuda alimenticia nacional e internacional, comercio agropecuario, investigación y educación, crédito agrario y desarrollo rural.

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Record 6 2005-10-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tourism (General)
  • Astronautics
CONT

How space tourism works. ... Make your reservations now. The space tourism industry is officially open for business, and tickets are going for a mere $20 million for a one-week stay in space. Despite reluctance from NASA, Russia made American businessman Dennis Tito the world’s first space tourist. Tito flew into space aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket that arrived at the International Space Station on April 30, 2001.

CONT

With the development of additional industrial sectors from the space industry, one such sector being outer space tourism, it is to be expected that turnover will reach a total of about US $ 500 billion.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tourisme (Généralités)
  • Astronautique
CONT

Un Japonais veut faire du tourisme spatial [...] S'il parvenait à ses fins, M. Enomoto deviendrait le quatrième touriste de l'espace. Le troisième, l'homme d'affaires américain Greg Olsen, est revenu sur terre mardi. Il avait déboursé 20 millions de dollars, via la société Space Adventures (prestataire exclusif des vols spatiaux pour touristes), pour s'offrir un siège à bord de la capsule Soyouz.

CONT

Le concours X PRIZE a pour but de donner un coup de fouet à l'industrie du tourisme aérospatial en stimulant la concurrence entre les entrepreneurs et les experts des engins spatiaux les plus doués du monde.

Spanish

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Record 7 2003-11-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Geology
CONT

An approximate "in ground value" in US$ billion to 120 m depth... can be calculated from deposit size to 120 m(Mt) combined with ore value(US$/t).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géologie économique
CONT

Une valeur «sur place» approximative (en milliards de dollars US) d'un gisement jusqu'à une profondeur de 120 m peut être calculée en combinant le tonnage de la cheminée, de la surface jusqu'à une profondeur de 120 m (en Mt), à la valeur du minerai ($ US/t) [...]

Spanish

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Record 8 2002-10-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Phraseology
CONT

Now the Tories got us in debt in spades in Saskatchewan to the tune of $2 billion.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Phraséologie
CONT

Maintenant les conservateurs nous ont encore plongés dans les dettes en Saskatchewan pour la bagatelle de 2 milliards de dollars.

Spanish

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Record 9 1994-07-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Bankruptcy
  • Economics
  • Phraseology
CONT

The Kloeckner group's steel units, with debts of $US 1. 7 billion, filed for protection form its creditors in December and began negotiations to write off 60 per cent of its debts.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Faillites
  • Économique
  • Phraséologie
CONT

Les unités de production d'acier du groupe Kloeckner, avec des dettes totalisant 1,7 milliard de dollars US, ont dû se résoudre à demander la protection de leurs créanciers en décembre et ont commencé à négocier la radiation de 60 pour cent de leurs dettes.

Spanish

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Record 10 1991-01-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Engineering
  • Management Operations (General)
CONT

Concurrent engineering, also known as simultaneous design, is emphasized in Japan, where that nation's Ministry of International Trade and Industry(MITI) has funded a ten-year project estimated to cost one billion US dollars.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Ingénierie
  • Opérations de la gestion (Généralités)
OBS

Nouvelle notion utilisée dans le domaine de la gestion appliquée à l'ingénierie.

Spanish

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Record 11 1990-01-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
  • Currency and Foreign Exchange

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général
  • Politique monétaire et marché des changes
OBS

Source : Affaires extérieures.

Spanish

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Record 12 1986-12-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Banking
CONT

While syndicated loan activity slackened in 1985, Orion Royal Pacific acted as lead or co-lead manager for 13 transactions for borrowers in Asia totalling US $2. 7 billion.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Banque
CONT

Bien que l'activité des syndicats de prêt ait fléchi en 1985, Orion Royal Pacific a été syndicataire ou cosyndicataire principal de treize opérations, pour le compte d'emprunteurs asiatiques, portant au total sur $2,7 milliards US.

Spanish

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Record 13 1981-01-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Financial Accounting
OBS

Even some experts do not realize how high America's surplus on current private account must be if we are to stay in healthy equilibrium with free long-term investment and are to carry on desired government operations abroad. Equilibrium might then require us to expand our exports of goods and services, in comparison with our imports, by enough to create a current private surplus of as much as $8 to $10 billion!(...)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comptabilité générale

Spanish

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