Sentence examples for Avoid duties from inspiring English sources

Since the colonial era, contraband trade has been significant in Panama among those wishing to avoid duties or other government controls.

The bribes went to extend drilling contracts for offshore rigs in Venezuela, to settle a customs dispute in India and to avoid duties on drilling equipment in Mexico.

Father Fay learned he had prostate cancer, but Ms. Patafio and other parishioners said he cited problems from the cancer to avoid duties he disliked.

The best offer so far is that, maybe, western companies will be allowed to avoid duties if they donate the goods in question to charities (including those favoured by the government, of course).

Much of the money is widely thought to have come from Russian trading companies that were trying to avoid duties and taxes or from rich Russians, many of whom have fled to Switzerland after the Soviet Union collapsed, to avoid taxation.

The final written records of her existence note that she was used as a watch vessel to spy on coastal smugglers using backwaters to avoid duties on lace, tobacco, brandy, and other goods from the continent.

He e-mailed asking me to resend it with papers claiming a lower value to help him avoid duty fees.

The Government last week moved to clamp down on a tax loophole under which "non-domiciled" residents (non-doms) with split employment contracts could avoid duty by putting their earnings through low-tax foreign jurisdictions.

Free-trade agreements: By operating factories and supplier networks inside free-trade regions, companies avoid duty and long distance transportation costs for both the finished product and its components.

As a junior officer he transferred to the 41st Regiment soon after to avoid duty in the East Indies, and in June 1789 transferred again, to the 12th (Prince of Wales's) Light Dragoons cavalry regiment.

These products are cheap, as they avoid duty, and highly concentrated, at up to 95% ethanol [ 39].