Sentence examples for onerous import from inspiring English sources

Onerous import tariffs limited consumption in Thailand to a small coterie of well-heeled expatriates and residents with a penchant for pricey labels and a tolerance for restaurant markups of 300 percent or more.

There is extreme poverty — thatch huts and farmers tending fields with buffalo — but also much unexplained wealth: modern, walled compounds and the frequent passage of Mitsubishi Pajeros and Toyota Prado Land Cruisers, vehicles that cost well upward of $100,000 in southern Myanmar because of onerous import duties.

These foreign carmakers are choosing to manufacture in Russia instead of importing vehicles in part because of the country's onerous rules on imported cars.

Participants are aiming for a "high-standard" agreement which chips away at stubborn non-tariff barriers: everything from import quotas to onerous regulatory hurdles.

An assessment of the rail project by a consultant for the United Nations Development Program said the terms of the financing offered by China's Export-Import Bank were so onerous they put Laos's "macroeconomic stability in danger".

With local unemployment about 10 percent and the bureaucracy for hiring foreigners onerous — guest workers have to be imported and housed and require extensive paperwork — it would seem natural for farmers to hire from their own communities, which they did a generation ago.

To no one's surprise, the World Trade Organization issued a final ruling yesterday that the Bush administration violated trade laws when it slapped onerous tariffs on an array of steel imports last year.

Russia, for example, imposed onerous inspections on American poultry exporters, because it said their chicken legs, imported in great quantities after the arrival of democracy, might contain salmonella.

ASEAN countries used to subscribe to import substitution as a development philosophy, and to burden foreign investors with onerous local-content requirements.

They are widely regarded as most onerous for poor, landlocked Afghans with no other links to the outside world for their meager exports or imports.

This practice was a sensible solution for all, since it enabled a country like West Germany to hire foreign workers to do various relatively onerous jobs for considerably less than it would have had to pay its domestic labor force, and the imported laborers also profited, as they were able to earn considerably more than they could have in their own countries.