Sentence examples for modest tariffs from inspiring English sources

The Commerce Department has already imposed modest tariffs on Chinese-made silicon cells based on a preliminary finding of improper subsidies.

The president's rejection of this plea, combined with his embrace of more modest tariffs, is likely to strike those wooed steelworkers as a betrayal.

In June, the European Union imposed modest tariffs of 11.8 percent on solar panels from China, but those are set to rise to 47.6 percent in August if Beijing does not stop what the Europeans say is dumping.

It was, however, a notably modest tariff: just $1 per bus per bus stop.

A four-year economic slump has confirmed the end of decades of dizzying growth which meant that one of smallest countries in Europe country, perched on top of the Pyrenees, could survive mainly off a modest tariff on imports.

In 1894, Congress enacted a small income tax (a 2-percent tax on incomes exceeding $4,000 and affecting only about 2percentt of Americans) as part of a modest tariff reduction.

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By blanketing the lower end of the market with such variety, Chuang has fended off challenges from rivals, even as Indonesia opened its chocolate market, imposing a modest 5% tariff on imports.

When Lighthizer announced a very modest slate of tariffs targeting Chinese-made goods last month, liberals and right-wing libertarians alike began tearing their hair out, while apocalyptic warnings about the supposedly devastating consequences of an imminent trade war began getting headlines.

The IMF worries, for example, that by granting only modest rises in the tariffs of privatised utilities, Mr Duhalde is storing up inflation for the future.

The elements of a deal have been in place for a while: modest cuts in agricultural tariffs and subsidies by developed countries in return for modest cuts in manufacturing and services barriers in the developing world.