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The annual income Great Britain derives from commissions in her whole foreign and colonial trade, import and export, is estimated by Sir R.
The United Arab Emirates, they actually signed a free trade deal to import uranium from Australia.
However, there are those, I know, who think that tariffs, trade barriers, import restrictions, are very important policy tools.
This same basic economic argument can be applied to trade: why import goods from abroad when we could get them from American businesses?
He agreed that Iran could open talks on membership of the World Trade Organisation and import spare parts for its ageing fleet of civilian aircraft.
Brazil's new rules on import finance angered its Mercosur trade partners.
Evans, the manager of Bush's presidential campaign, was tapped by the president-elect December 20 for the Commerce post, where, should he be confirmed, he will be charged with overseeing domestic commerce, international trade agreements, import and export levels, fisheries policy, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Census Bureau and the National Weather Service.
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EU's Caribbean-favouring import regime condemned by the World Trade Organisation, but are still waiting to see any benefits.
The wireless-technology firm challenged a June 7th ruling by America's International Trade Commission banning the import of new mobile phones that contain the company's chips.
U.S. economic data due for release Thursday includes the weekly jobless claims report, import and export prices, international trade in goods and services, and the weekly DOE energy stocks report.
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Countries agreed to lower their most blatant barriers to trade, such as import tariffs or quotas imposed at the border, while intervening at will, with taxes, subsidies and regulations, in their domestic economies.
This week the economic calendar is very light, with the jobless claims Thursday, followed Friday by the international trade numbers as well as import and export prices.
For example, production of an iPhone is spread across several countries yet in U.S. trade statistics it counts as an import only from China.
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.
U.S. economic data due for release Thursday includes the weekly jobless claims report, import and export price indexes, the international trade in goods and services report and the Treasury budget statement.
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Under regional free-trade rules, Malaysia must cut import tariffs to as little as 5% though it has managed to defer this until 2008 and to raise excise duties in some cases to 800%.
In other words, if the price of Chinese goods to American consumers increased by 21 percent (on average) and Americans reduced their consumption of Chinese goods by less than 21 percent, then demand would be considered inelastic, the price effect would dominate, and total import value would rise (adding to the trade deficit).
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Brazil has imposed non-automatic import licenses on Argentine automobiles, effectively blocking the trade, as retaliation in response to a prior re-vamping of trade restrictions on behalf of Argentina.
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If our exports are sold to businesses but what we import is sold to consumers then worsening terms of trade will cause consumer prices to rise faster than labor costs.
Indeed, as conventional trade barriers, such as tariffs and import quotas, have come down over the past half-century, others, such as discriminatory regulations, have sprung up to take their place.
The U.S. often spends more importing certain items from China than it does on oil, which is perceived as its most important import and the one that contributes most to the trade deficit.
So during the financial crisis, as trade finance dried up, the Export-Import Bank lived up to its mission and stepped up to fill the void.
China is a minor exporter of crude oil and coal, so the overall trade figure is a little lower than the import numbers shown below.
Businessmen have asked the government to seek special trade facilities from India and a right to import electricity from Nepal and Bhutan across Indian territory.
While they may be faced with more import competition, a shift to a policy of free trade could also open up export opportunities for these companies.
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Kenyan officials benefit from that trade and from turning a blind eye to the import of Somali cattle for slaughter in Nairobi.
The row has affected transatlantic trade since 1988, when the EU banned the import of beef from animals treated with growth hormones.
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