The aim of these funds is the same as that of their domestic counterparts: to offer low-cost competition to actively managed funds.

The plan relies on a continuing shift of planes from domestic service to international routes, where there is less low-cost competition.

Another is low-cost competition from a new product: index funds that can be traded on exchanges.

By the mid-20th century, the UK cotton industry had gone into decline because of low-cost competition from Asian manufacturers.

Carolina shrimpers, like Maryland crabbers, are menaced by low-cost foreign competition.

A 1996 study concluded that passengers traveling in markets with low-cost competition saved $6.3 billion a year, $2.6 billion of which came from large hub airports.

In the late 1950s the industry was again in decline, facing low-cost competition from elsewhere in the United States and abroad.

However, I would never want to see those rules used as a weapon against others' low-cost competition or against others' legitimate use of their comparative advantage.

The company's continuing success comes as the once-complacent industry struggles to survive the shock of low-cost competition from China.

But in Hong Kong the hamburger faces tough low-cost competition from older kinds of speedy foods.