A specific duty is a levy of a given amount of money per unit of the import, such as $1 per yard or per pound.
A specific duty, however, penalizes more severely the lower grades of an imported commodity.
Since November 1999, excise and customs duty in Australia is levied as a specific duty on each cigarette, with an equivalent duty per kilogram of tobacco in the case of roll-your-own smoking tobacco and cigars and cigarettes weighing more than 0.8 grams [ 15].
We focused to find out effects of specific duty cycles and the percentage of time that ultrasound is being generated over one on/off pulse period, under ultrasound stimulation.
Or to put the argument slightly differently, if whatever we do or however things turn out must be deemed the action of God, how can our pantheistic belief demand of us any specific duty?
It has revealed a clear generational difference, with older politicians and commentators reminding of their country's specific duty to a European integration process built on the ruins of World War II, while others are prone to openly celebrate Germany's continental predominance.
Until recently practices were also able to receive rebates for PN involvement in a narrow range of specific duties including immunisations, Pap smears and wound dressings.
The ethical principle of respect for persons, widely recognized as a pillar of medical research, 41 implies the specific duty of being sensitive to other cultural perspectives.
Alboin chose this walled town close to the frontier to be capital of the Duchy of Friuli and made his nephew and shield bearer, Gisulf, duke of the region, with the specific duty of defending the borders from Byzantine or Avar attacks from the east.
This includes people who died of a heart attack while sitting at their desks, as well as those who died in the course of specific duties, such as a cop gunned down by a bank robber.
