Sentence examples for export surcharge from inspiring English sources

An export surcharge essentially satisfies both requests.

It not only eliminated export tax rebates on many steel products in April, but also slapped an export surcharge on some.

This drop in exports reflects a struggle between Iraq and the United Nations, which oversees Iraq's exports under the Oil for Food program, because of Iraq's imposition of an illegal export surcharge that goes directly to Saddam Hussein's coffers, bypassing the United Nations accounts.

The system created an opportunity for abuse, with Saddam Hussein's government demanding the middlemen pay a surcharge to export the oil.

With Japan — whose yen was fixed at 360 to the dollar — Nixon played hardball, temporarily imposing a 10-percent surcharge on imports and banning soybean exports to the country.

FedEx is hoping a 5.9% average rate increase, effective January 2010, for express domestic and export shipping will recover revenue from lower fuel surcharges, but the likelihood that FedEx will be able to effectively pass on any rate increase to consumers is weak.

On Dec. 1, Hussein carried out his threat to halt oil exports unless buyers agreed to pay a 50-cent surcharge per barrel, which would be diverted into bank accounts not controlled by the United Nations.

Moreover, in discussing how to stop the illegal export of Iraqi oil and Iraq's imposition of illegal surcharges on controlled imports, council members are also being forced to acknowledge how lax enforcement of sanctions has been.

U.P.S., based in Atlanta, said it would raise its air express rates 3.7percentt for one-, two-, and three-day delivery and raise ground delivery rates 3.1percentt beginning Feb. 5. U.P.S. changed its residential surcharge to $1.05 a package from $1 and raised international export rates 2.9percentt.

Last week he closed the tap on the 2.3 million barrels a day of oil that Baghdad exports when consuming nations rejected his demand for a 50-cent-a-barrel surcharge over U.N.-administered prices.

Last week, Iraq stopped pumping and exporting oil, after the United Nations had said Iraq could not lower the price to offset a surcharge of 50 cents a barrel that Baghdad's national oil company wanted to impose on buyers outside the supervised system.