41. The weaker yen helps the company when it repatriates profits earned in overseas markets, while overseas production is often cheaper than manufacturing at home. 42. They also face limitations on repatriating profits. 43. To be sure, many analysts said February is a month when Japanese companies begin repatriating overseas profits before they close their books at the end of March. 44. Today, a profitable company faces high taxes and an inability to repatriate profits. 45. Thus, tax experts say, the law encourages these companies to invest in new plants overseas rather than repatriating profits or investing in American factories. 46. Penza said a delegation of Zambian bankers will soon travel to Congolese cities to work out mechanisms on how Zambian investors could repatriate profits. 47. A strong dollar tends to increase earnings of Japanese exporters when they repatriate overseas profits into yen. 48. A stronger Japanese currency boosts the earnings of Japanese exporters when they repatriate dollar-denominated profits earned abroad. 49. An excessively strong yen hurts the income of export-based industries, which repatriate profits earned overseas in dollars back to Japan. 50. But penalties remained on repatriating profits. |