Sentence examples for imposed on commodities from inspiring English sources
Similarly, an export duty, or export tax, is a tax imposed on commodities leaving a customs area.
Still, a levy imposed on a commodity like cigarettes, sometimes referred to as a "sin tax," is intended less as a means of filling government coffers than as a way of enforcing a social mandate.
But, says Hull, "any economist will tell you that when higher taxes are imposed on a commodity like oil, production will be shifted to lower tax places.
Import tariffs were also imposed on other agricultural commodities.
The securities industry has already gone to federal court to prevent the C.F.T.C. from imposing limits on commodities trading that can lead to excessive speculation, which can drive up the price of oil and other goods.
REFCO, moreover, was fined two hundred and fifty thousand dollars — at that time the largest fine ever imposed on a broker in the history of commodity-futures trading.
Commodity futures trading is regulated, with limits imposed on market participants based on whether they are a producer, a "hedger" (i.e., an actual consumer of raw commodities), or a speculator (everyone else).
The devaluation of the rupee and the restrictions imposed on the country's commercial life elevated the price of gasoline, natural gas, and electricity, as well as staple food commodities.
"There are no players imposed on me.
The oil embargo imposed on Japan by President Roosevelt in 1941 helped to provoke the Pearl Harbour attack.Today's rising Asian power, China, is attempting to secure its commodity supplies by doing deals with producers.
