Sentence examples for prohibitive tariffs from inspiring English sources

The United States will end restrictions on Iranian-made carpets -- a law that was widely flouted anyway -- and reduce prohibitive tariffs on pistachios and caviar.

She also announced that America would end its sanctions on Iranian carpets, and reduce its prohibitive tariffs on caviare and pistachios.A mortar attack in a residential neighbourhood of Baghdad killed six people.

The Clinton administration plans to slap prohibitive tariffs on a range of European imports by early August in retaliation for the European Union's failure to lift its longstanding ban on hormone-treated beef.

The Vietnamese, after doing well enough to capture a fair share of the American market, have been declared trade violators deserving permanent, prohibitive tariffs by the United States International Trade Commission.

Too often you see that raw timber or cocoa beans are imported duty-free, but furniture and chocolate bars face prohibitive tariffs.

(In the 1960s, prohibitive tariffs replaced this quota).

At present a prohibitive tariff on US imports effectively prices them out of contention.

It retains a prohibitive tariff of 25 percent on imported cars, for example, which helps explain why imports represent only 4 percent of the light vehicles sold in China.

The border tax adjustment would amount to a prohibitive tariff of 26% on China's exports and 20% on India's.

They found that existing illegal markets can act as a prohibitive tariff suppressing the development of legal services.

The British had put up prohibitive tariff barriers to shut out Indian finished goods and were dumping their commodities in India, a practice backed by British gunboats and military force.