The price at which goods are or have been bought by a merchant or retailer.
成本价；购入成本
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Because of the considerable impact of distribution costs on the aggregate cost price, it seems important that competition between dealers should also be stimulated.
Irish motorists have called for the removal of the tax, which can add up to 30% to the cost price of a vehicle.
At the auction, where he regularly trades as part his business, out of date equipment is sold at a fraction of the cost price.
Owing to ‘gross human error’ this price was offered at £82 less than cost price, the company explained to customers in an email.
Alternatively, internal transfers of coal could be made at cost price or at market price.
They sell them at prices that are more than 10 times the cost price.
In order to create the conditions for private capital, the Commission says consumers must pay the full cost price of water.
They will have access to information like average weekly sales and order history as well as more detailed sales history, cost price and recommended retail price.
When it establishes itself in a new town, it often sells staple foods below their cost price.
It was found that most councils neglected to keep complete registers on the cost price and descriptions of individual assets.
Any stock that could have been returned has been returned and efforts are still being made to sell stock at or even below the cost price.
The taxable benefit to the employee is ascertained with reference to the cost price of the vehicle.
Genuine dumping (selling goods below cost price in a foreign market) is difficult to prove but, like export subsidies, it may distort trade and inflict damage on the recipient country's producers.
A batch of cookies or brownies only costs a few dollars to make but you can probably sell them for 3 or 4 times the cost price.
Essentially, the order prevents retailers undercutting competitors by selling products below cost price.
Wine industry sources claimed that there are even larger mark-ups on house wines imported from abroad, on which some restaurants are suspected of charging up to seven times the cost price.
More obviously, of course, simple disagreement over margins can occur when retailers consider the cost price to be too high.
The apartments will be sold to medium to lower income purchasers at cost price, and will be built on a prominent corner site in the city.
Selling product below cost price in order to gain market advantage is illegal.
The indirect subsidy covers the difference between a product's cost price and its selling price to consumers.