Sentence examples for for the tariffs from inspiring English sources

Free trade policies, commonly referred to in Mexico as neoliberalism, should be scrutinized less for the tariffs they eliminate and more for their use as development strategies, he said.

(America's International Trade Commission, which argued for the tariffs, disagrees about the price effect, saying they have raised prices by only 0.94%. The president has a number of options.

With an eye toward the 2004 election, President Bush is expected to try to appease both the steel industry, which asked for the tariffs, and the steel-consuming industries that oppose them.

The federal government's imposition of steep tariffs last year on Chinese conventional panels helped, but the industry had waited so late to apply for the tariffs that balance sheets had already been crippled with accumulated losses and investors had lost interest.

Third-world food-processing businesses would also benefit, for the tariffs on processed food are often even higher than on the unprocessed sort.Coffee producers, for example, are currently suffering from a big slump in prices, thanks to rapid increases in production in Vietnam and elsewhere.

Several officials acknowledged that the gathering, held in the luxurious confines of the beach resort of Nusa Dua on the Indonesian island of Bali, produced even fewer substantive accomplishments than last year's meeting, where the group approved an environmental goods and services accord that called for the tariffs on 54 products, like solar panels, to be reduced to 5 percent or less.

The company asked for an exemption from the tariffs that has not yet been granted.

Doctors, cancer experts and ASH (the anti-smoking charity) pushed for the tariff but were rebuffed.

The justification for the tariff would, however, be completely different from the one usually advanced by politicians (and industry).

Opposition politicians have been calling for the tariff reductions to be postponed, and even for NAFTA to be renegotiated.Slim chance of that.

A judge lifted a cloak of anonymity thrown over Sutcliffe, 63, as he conducted a preliminary hearing and gave directions for the tariff-setting exercise.