Sentence examples for collecting duties from inspiring English sources

The Trojans could have gained wealth by controlling shipping and collecting duties on all goods.

Besides serving as general overseer of commerce between Spain and its American possessions, as the 16th century progressed, the Casa began controlling the African slave trade, scheduling ships and shipping routes, collecting duties, and maintaining royal revenues.

Since the 'official' rate varied by more than 5percentnt from the proclaimed value of the pound for that quarter, the collector used the 'official' rate in converting pounds into dollars for the purpose of assessing and collecting duties upon the value of the woolen fabrics.

We think that the use of the 'official' rate of exchange in assessing and collecting duties upon these imports transcended the authority of the collector and of the Secretary and that the 'free' rate of exchange certified by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York should have been used.

Until 1499, the House of Guinea represented, in embryonic form, a colonial ministry in Portugal, in charge of storing merchandise, collecting duty on incoming goods, maintaining the Portuguese merchant fleet, and arranging shipping schedules.

This changed in 1764, when the government passed a new Sugar Act -- which lowered the 1733 tax but made it enforceable -- and began collecting duty on molasses to pay off the debts incurred during the French and Indian War.

One is a "customs partnership", under which the UK would collect duties on the EU's behalf.

The United States now collects duties averaging 27percentt on Canadian lumber, arguing that the wood is unfairly subsidized in Canada and sold at below-market prices.

A second was a "customs partnership" in which the UK would collect duties on the EU's behalf for goods destined for the bloc.

The critical amendment adopted by the government on Monday stated that HM Revenue & Customs could not collect duties or VAT on goods on behalf of the European Union unless there was a reciprocal arrangement.

Investigating the site's buried layers of occupation from about 3000 B.C. to A.D. 1200, Dr. Korfmann concluded that in the Late Bronze Age, the centuries around the time of the legendary Trojan War, Troy was a prosperous and powerful center of commerce, in part because it could control shipping and collect duties on all goods passing through the Dardanelles.