Carolina Furniture North Outlet
U.S. Congressman Howard Coble : 6th District Of North Carolina
Let’s begin with furniture – the Sixth District is as well known for this industry as any. Twice a year, in April and October, 70,000 buyers from all corners of the world converge on High Point to attend the International Home Furnishings Market to see the latest in furniture designs and trends. When you mention High Point to anybody in the world, they immediately know you are talking about furniture – the names are synonymous. Thomasville, in nearby Davidson County, is known as the Chair City because it is the home of Thomasville Furniture and a giant Chippendale-style chair that adorns the town square. Not to be outdone, High Point boasts of several giant pieces of furniture sprinkled throughout the city. ... [Read More]
ARC | Research Reports
In the northeastern corner of the state of Mississippi, centered in the city of Tupelo (perhaps best known as the birthplace of Elvis Presley), about 250 companies employing 22,000 people last year (up from 7,800 in 1980) produce mid-range furniture for mass markets. [i] Of the 14,904 new jobs in industry Mississippi reported during 1992, 41 percent were in furniture. The ten-county Appalachia region anchored by Tupelo has become the second largest producer of upholstered furniture in the nation, behind only the Hickory-High Point region of North Carolina, and it is the nation’s leader in mid-range recliners and incliners. “Almost everyone you meet around here,” observed one company owner, "has [or will have] worked in furniture by age thirty." The products of this cluster are not the fashionable traditional pieces of North Carolina or stylized pieces of Oregon, but functional furniture made in quantity and distributed largely though mass marketing to chain stores. In Alabama ano ... [Read More]
FRB: Beige Book--Richmond--July 28, 2004
Contacts at services firms told us that demand had picked up in recent weeks. A manager at a Tidewater Virginia rental outlet that specializes in tools said his revenues were well above a year ago, and a national trucking firm with offices in North Carolina reported stronger demand for freight transportation services. There were scattered reports of adverse impacts from higher prices in the services sector. The owner of an architectural firm in the Baltimore, Md., area, for example, expressed concern that higher prices of construction materials might limit the number of new construction projects--potentially reducing his business. In addition, a trucking firm in North Carolina reported that a run-up in fuel prices had not been fully passed through to customers, squeezing its profit margins. ... [Read More]
Outline of American History - Chapter 1
While the Spanish were pushing up from the south, the northernportion of the present-day United States was slowly beingrevealed through the journeys of men such as Giovanni daVerrazano. A Florentine who sailed for the French, Verrazanomade landfall in North Carolina in 1524, then sailed north alongthe Atlantic coast past what is now New York harbor. ... In 1585 Raleigh established the first British colony in NorthAmerica, on Roanoke Island off the coast of North Carolina. Itwas later abandoned, and a second effort two years later alsoproved a failure. It would be 20 years before the British wouldtry again. This time -- at Jamestown in 1607 -- the colony wouldsucceed, and North America would enter a new era. ... [Read More]
Commodities - State-Specific Exchanges
NC WasteTrader (NCWT) is a free waste exchange serving North Carolina. This is an actively managed exchange providing staffed assistance, matching post-industrial waste and surplus commodities with markets. NC DPPEA also provides free, non-regulatory, onsite waste reduction technical assistance to North Carolina businesses. Funding for NCWT is provided by the North Carolina Energy Office and the Division of Pollution Prevention and Environmental Assistance. A P2Assist Waste Reduction Listserv is also available. ... [Read More]
Virginia Department of Taxation
Consumer's use tax is the "other half" of the Virginia retail sales and use tax requirements. Typically, you incur the consumer's use tax if you made more than $100 in purchases during the year for which you did not pay sales tax. Common instances of these types of transactions are purchases from the Internet, mail-order catalogues and cable television shopping channels. The tax also applies to tax-free purchases you make outside of Virginia, such as buying furniture at an outlet in another state and having it shipped to Virginia. The tax is 4.5% (5% as of 9/1/04) of the cost of regular non-food purchases and 4% on purchases of food for home consumption. Report the tax by filing Form CU-7 by May 1 each year, or by reporting it on Schedule ADJ , line 23. ... [Read More]
Virginia Department of Taxation
I purchased furniture from a store in North Carolina and had it shipped to my home in Virginia. The seller did not charge any sales tax. Will I have to pay tax in Virginia? ... Consumer's use tax is the "other half" of the Virginia retail sales and use tax requirements. Typically, you incur the consumer's use tax if you made more than $100 in purchases during the year for which you did not pay sales tax. Common instances of these types of transactions are purchases from the Internet, mail-order catalogues and cable television shopping channels. The tax also applies to tax-free purchases you make outside of Virginia, such as buying furniture at an outlet in another state and having it shipped to Virginia. The tax is 4.5% (5% as of 9/1/04) of the cost of regular non-food purchases and 4% on purchases of food for home consumption. Report the tax by filing Form CU-7 by May 1 each year, or by reporting it on Schedule ADJ, line 23. ... [Read More]
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