0 Value-added products or services are worth more because they have been improved or had something added to them.
1 the increase in value of a product or service as it goes through the stages of being developed and produced:
2 the total output (= value of all the products, services, etc.) in a particular region, economy, etc. after taking away the value of inputs (= materials, labour, etc.):
The presence of large global companies brings much additional benefit to the economy over and above their contribution to value added.
Increasing domestic value added implies development and use of modern product and process technologies.
The share of value added in manufacturing by small and medium-sized firms has risen from 28% in 1980 to almost 40% now.
3 relating to the increase in value of a product or service as it goes through the stages of being developed and produced:
4 relating to a process or industry that increases the value of a product or service:
high/low value-added activities The companies' Hong Kong headquarters are shifting towards higher value-added activities such as sales and marketing.
value-added manufacturing/production/systems
5 used to refer to the profit made from sales of products or services in a particular region, etc. in relation to the value of materials, labour, etc.:
In addition, the forest sectors produced such value-added products as veneers, woodchips, and furniture products.
And lastly, the government abrogated the subsidy that derived from forgiving the value-added tax, which was most of the subsidy to industrial promotion.
The value-added of relational contracting comes from its explicit attention to the possibilities of hierarchy in international politics.
Continued focus on freshness, and specialty and organic produce, is likely, with growing demand for floral and other value-added horticultural products.
Because of their direct link to the production level, the producer-handler has the potential to provide insight into value-added activities in the organic sector.
Further, these impacts can be measured in terms of total output, employment, wages and salaries, and value-added.
Most goods and services are subject to a value-added tax.
When the linearization is carried over to the green accounts, the same value-added approach can be used for evaluating individual resources.
