Sentence examples for common tariffs from inspiring English sources

A free-trade zone with common tariffs is a customs union.

In other areas, co-operation is diminishing: bureaucrats discussing issues such as common tariffs and banking arrangements find the bitterness has spread to their political masters.

Speaking in the Mac arts theatre in Belfast's Cathedral Quarter, Ramsey said: "The customs union is looking at the trade in goods and common tariffs coming into that area.

Argentina is abandoning Mercosur's common tariffs pact and abolishing import duties on machinery because it believes these have served only to prop up inefficient Brazilian firms while preventing Argentine industry from introducing new technology.

It is a partial form of economic integration that offers an intermediate step between free-trade zones (which allow mutual free trade but lack a common tariff system) and common markets (which, in addition to the common tariffs, also allow free movement of resources such as capital and labour between member countries).

The common tariff is to be based on an arithmetical average of existing tariffs.

But talks quickly ran into trouble over the tricky question of achieving a common tariff policy.

They would also have to adopt the EU's common tariff on non-EU goods.

A common tariff, the Prussian Tariff of 1818, shielded the member states from foreign competition, but free trade was the rule internally.

Yet in another significant matter that of the common tariff with the outside world the low tariff countries, Holland and Belgium, have succeeded in gaining a fairly liberal solution.

But Brazil, which wants to give industry more time to prepare for competition from abroad and has a giant domestic market of 170 million people, was willing to consider only minor trims to Mercosur's common tariff of 14percentt.