What if we repealed the import duties, inviting ethanol in from sugarcane-growing nations near the equator?
The government has been trying to stem price rises by cutting import duties and excise taxes.
With that in mind, ministers have moved up their deadlines for eliminating import duties by five years.
The government is pondering cuts in import duties to tempt more foreign drinks firms into the domestic market.
Until recently they were exempt from taxes, import duties and most government regulation.
Unlike almost any other country, Russia levies import duties sometimes to the tune of several thousand dollars on ordinary household removals.
The firm has also long benefited from the Indian structure of import duties.
India has raised import duties on gold by a half to try to rein in demand for the precious metal.
The biggest incentive to smuggling comes from the high import duties levied by almost all the countries in the region.
And the EU could in fact do that: import duties are a sole European Union competence in our system of governance.
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Even now, Alrawi -- who lives at home with her parents -- says that imports are inconvenient and import duties costly.
Ghana, Kenya and Mozambique are also expected to announce that import duties on mosquito nets will be abolished or substantially reduced.
Then they slapped on import duties against German automobiles and other items.
But senior Afghan officials have said U.S. contractors routinely abuse their tax-exempt status to evade import duties and illegally engage in commercial activities.
And when the center supplied computers to various teams, some got stuck in customs because no one had checked up on import duties.
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So Dr Mahathir protected his baby with import duties of 40-300%.
Most of these are likely to result in whopping import duties.
Vincent Marush Sando, who coordinates a domestic-cotton promotion campaign in Mozambique's capital Maputo, says Africa should place stiff import duties on used clothes from the West.
Some 800 people were injured in several days of rioting, prompting President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to cut costs on some foods and lower import duties on others.
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Toyota will be able to ship them to Thailand without facing the stiff import duties that would have made this practice too expensive in the past.
If governments on either side were to levy countervailing import duties (as the WTO allows when an illegal subsidy persists), it could spark a disastrous trade war.
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It now allows foreigners 100% ownership of businesses, and has set up free zones where these pay neither import duties nor (for 12 years) taxes on labour and utilities.
Some observers believe that India has more to fear from the relaxing of import duties with other members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) than it does from Nepal.
As a revenue source, manufacturers much preferred import duties.
Import duties and other taxes make it so that the Brazilian buying a muscular Jeep Cherokee could have bought three of them if they were living in Miami like their friends.
Tim Murphy, a Pennsylvania congressman, is championing a bill that would give Congress power to review presidential decisions on whether or not to increase import duties in the face of sudden dislocations.
The government's response was not to raise import duties again, but to pass a measure intended to persuade foreign makers to revive the Russian car industry by setting up local assembly plants.
Dubai's attractions are many: In addition to glitzy shopping malls, it boasts so-called "free zones, " which allow for 100% foreign ownership, 100% repatriation of capital and profits, exemption from corporate tax and no import duties.
It wants to suspend Mercosur's tariff so it can abolish import duties on capital equipment while raising those on consumer goods to 35% both currently average 14% in the hope that this will boost growth (see article).
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