Sentence examples for Lesser duty from inspiring English sources

However, scrapping the lesser duty rule in Brussels could allow duties to be lifted much higher.

Britain has been resistant to the efforts to remove the so-called lesser duty rule, claiming that it would be a protectionist move.

The government must support the lifting of the lesser duty rule, otherwise steel manufacturing will be lost in the UK and Europe".

What the questioner was referring to was the lesser duty rule... essentially it is whether you have a proportionate response or you lurch towards protectionism.

They are not the only member state, but they are certainly the ringleader in blocking the lifting of the lesser duty rule," he told the BBC's Today programme.

Sajid Javid, the business secretary, has said it would not be right for the EU to scrap regulations known as the "lesser duty rule", which some countries want to end in order to allow higher tariffs on Chinese steel.

For failing to prevent Mrs. Carla George De Vries, 555 Rosencranz Avenue, Norwalk, Calif., from throwing her arms about Hitler's neck and kissing him at the Olympic swimming stadium Saturday, certain members of the dictator's plainclothes bodyguard have been dismissed and several others have been transferred to lesser duties.

In this way does the performance of lesser duties provide an excuse for shirking far greater ones.

A tribunal found employee Meseret Kumulchew had been given lesser duties in a London branch after difficulties with reading and telling the time.

The commission wants to scrap the lesser-duty rule for countries dumping goods on world markets.

Although not compulsory under World Trade Organisation guidelines, the EU has chosen to abide by the lesser-duty rule, which restricts punitive tariffs on dumped goods.