Sentence examples for duties on commodities from inspiring English sources

"You're talking about duties on commodities, something that's almost as complicated as the Internal Revenue Code," Mr. Jones said.

Intensely combative, full of private doubts about his own capacities but never about his cause, Adams became a leading figure in the opposition to the Townshend Acts (1767), which imposed duties on imported commodities (i.e., glass, lead, paper, paint, and tea).

This type of duty is levied on commodities that originate in one country, cross another, and are consigned to a third.

Similarly, an export duty, or export tax, is a tax imposed on commodities leaving a customs area.

A transit duty, or transit tax, is a tax levied on commodities passing through a customs area en route to another country.

Africa is still too dependent on commodities.

"Farm policy has been focused on commodities.

One prominent commodities advocate — Jim Rogers, chairman of Rogers Holdings — has been bullish on commodities since 1999.

Relying on commodities has failed time and again, too.

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