Sentence examples for raised tariff from inspiring English sources

Because of its failure to protect labour rights, however, Belarus lost its EU Generalized System of Preferences status on 2007, which raised tariff rates to their prior most favoured nation levels.

Some have raised tariffs, as Russia did on second-hand cars and India did on steel.

Smoot-Hawley sharply raised tariffs on thousands of products, not just one.

Within days, two of the G20 countries, Russia and India, raised tariffs on cars and steel respectively.

Plenty of people argued against the Smoot-Hawley bill, which raised tariffs at the onset of the Depression.

DURING the Great Depression, America's protectionist Smoot-Hawley Act of 1930 raised tariffs on more than 900 goods.

Yet the government has raised tariffs on some items and begun a series of anti-dumping investigations.

Earlier this month Ecuador raised tariffs on hundreds of Colombian products.Mr Correa remains popular, partly because he has lavished oil money on social programmes.

In 1963, it raised tariffs on a range of European products: brandy to hit the French; dextrine, a food and glue component, to hit the Dutch.

Japan raised tariffs on Chinese leeks, shiitake mushrooms and reeds used to make floor mats in an effort to protect farmers from cheap imports.

In his speech Saturday, Mr. Brown warned of a repeat of the 1930s, when nations raised tariffs to protect their own industries and damaged the world economy.