Sentence examples for minimal tariffs from inspiring English sources

In 1842, the Chinese government was forced to sign the Treaty of Nanking, promising Britain more than twenty million silver dollars in reparations (around half a billion dollars in today's currency), minimal tariffs on its goods, docking rights at five Chinese ports, and sovereignty over Hong Kong.

Minimal import tariffs on American caviar were increased from $7 to $14 per kilogram of caviar, according to an RBC Daily newspaper report cited by RIA.

He called the hotel-motel tariff that has minimal impact on locals as "taxation without representation".

And it underscores the role played by free trade zones — areas specially designated by a growing number of countries to encourage trade, where tariffs are waived and there is minimal regulatory oversight.

Trade liberalization has led to increased tobacco consumption in LMICs [ 53] through a combination of tariffs reduction, liberalization in FDI and minimal national tobacco control measures.

He was also an advocate of proportional representation for the Senate as representative of the "true majority", and managed to guide the 1902 Customs Tariff Act through the Senate with minimal interference.

The accord came on the same day the Senate overwhelming ratified a trade accord with Vietnam, sharply reducing steep tariffs and other barriers that have kept trade minimal since the United States and Vietnam re-established diplomatic relations in 1995.

The EH model with random wind, electricity, and power tariffs is also presented in [21, 22] with a minimal objective function of daytime running costs as well as technical constraints of the EH.

ASO enables the minimal 5%-DTR ESS capacity, power, energy and feed-in-tariffs to be inferred from the operating conditions, depending on tolerance.

However, the optimal ice storage rate in relation to minimal economic evaluation index value under each control strategy is significantly affected by the electric tariff structures.

Free market, an unregulated system of economic exchange, in which taxes, quality controls, quotas, tariffs, and other forms of centralized economic interventions by government either do not exist or are minimal.