Protectionist policies in Europe were relatively mild in the second half of the 19th century, although France, Germany, and several other countries were compelled at times to impose customs duties as a means of sheltering their growing industrial sectors from British competition.
She is in favour of French withdrawal from both, so that she can restrict immigration, impose customs duties on imports, nationalise big businesses when useful, and re-instate the French Franc.
In this case, the Court was asked to inquire into the decision of the Director-General of Customs and Excise to impose customs duty on certain goods that had been imported into the country by the applicant but allegedly not re-exported.
Fox is for quitting the EU customs union, imposing customs checks on all exports, and a Northern Ireland hard border.
The overall measure is technically cost-free, because it would also raise money by tightening rules against tax shelters and imposing new customs duties.
Others recommend getting tougher with China in the same way President Reagan got tough with Japan at times, by being willing to impose more customs duties or file more cases through bodies like the WTO.
It seems the European Commission is still trying to figure out if it wants to impose a customs duty of up to 14percentt (a tax, essentially) on imported multifunction devices, most notably cellphones.
The British put tribal leaders — known as maliks — on the payroll to stand in for the central government, which imposed no taxes or customs duties and, in turn, did very little.
Subject as aforesaid and to the other provisions of this mandate, the Administration of Palestine may, on the advice of the Mandatory, impose such taxes and customs duties as it may consider necessary, and take such steps as it may think best to promote the development of the natural resources of the country and to safeguard the interests of the population.
It would offset about $68 billion of that cost by phasing out the old tax subsidy for exports, tightening rules against tax shelters and imposing fees for things like customs duties.
