Sentence examples for content of imports from inspiring English sources
Some 40% of the content of imports from Mexico into the United States, and 25% of the content of imports from Canada, originated in the United States itself.
The obvious way would be to set a tariff based on the carbon content of imports.
Knowing what the carbon content of imports actually is would be tough.
As long as the tariff imposed on the carbon content of imports is comparable to the cost of domestic carbon licenses, the effect is to charge your own consumers a price that reflects the carbon emitted in what they buy, no matter where it is produced.
Finally, Benedetto (2012) and Stehrer (2012) point out that the estimations of trade flows in terms of value added do not strictly modify the total amounts of trade balances, given that, for example, if the national value-added content of exports of China is less than the gross value of their exports, the foreign value-added content of imports of China as final goods, would also be less.
Furthermore, given the increased use of imported intermediate goods and services associated with rising global trade flows in recent decades, it is not only exports of goods and services that carry some content of imported inputs classified in other sectors.
He hypothesized a causal relationship of appendicitis with a low cellulose content of imported foods.
The failure to recognise declining sugar concentration in Australian beverages may also apply to estimates of the sucrose content of imported foods.
In determining the amount of mercury in fish attributable to U.S. sources, Trasande et al. note that 42% of the supply of edible fish in the U.S. is imported (National Marine Fisheries Service 2003) and they estimate that 2% of the mercury content of imported fish is attributed to American anthropogenic sources.
In fact, a well-designed tax would be levied on the carbon content of all imports coming from countries that did not impose their own carbon levies.
As a result, to use economists' jargon, the "factor content" of American imports—in effect, the amount of skilled labour they contain has not shifted downwards.
