Sentence examples for levy a duty from inspiring English sources

A simple way to raise prices would be for the governments of producing countries to levy a duty on exports.

The Great Hedge was a customs barrier put up by the British to levy a duty on salt – cutting off an affordable supply of an absolute necessity of life.

The government of India used to levy a customs duty of 135% on imported software packages, but most companies manipulated their invoices to avoid paying duties.

Unfortunately, during another of Pitt's absences due to an episode of gout, Lord Townshend persuaded Parliament to levy a heavy duty on colonial imports of tea to raise the necessary revenues.

The European Union still levies a 10percentt duty on cars imported from Japan, four times the duty that Washington assesses.

The United States levies a specific duty of 2.1 US cents per kilogram, while the Russian Federation has a five percent tariff and Canada is duty free.

The government levies a stamp duty, or tax, on the purchase of all residential property.

In 1765, Grenville introduced the Stamp Act, which levied a stamp duty on every document in the British colonies in North America.

So, in 1781, an amendment to the Articles of Confederation was proposed to allow the Congress to levy a five percent duty on imports until the war debt was paid off.

The government levies an export duty of 65% at prices over $25 a barrel.

The statute directed that there should be levied, collected and paid a duty of fifty cents for each alien passenger who should come by vessel from a foreign port to one in the United States.