Sentence examples for reducing customs from inspiring English sources

The vice-president, Roxana Baldetti, had already resigned following allegations that her private secretary took bribes in exchange for reducing customs duties.

A bilateral trade deal signed by China and Switzerland in July will go into effect in mid-2014, remoring oreducingng customs duties applicable to Swiss watch exports over the next 5 to 10 years.

Plans for a comprehensive deal including freer trade in agriculture, services and industrial goods have already been drastically pared back, with the WTO now trying to get agreement on a mini package involving food security, reducing customs red tape and better access to Western markets for developing countries.

Spanning half the continent, from Cairo to Cape Town, the TFTA is expected to boost trade between signatories, by streamlining clearance procedures for goods and dramatically reducing customs fees by 56percentt.

FedEx is also working to reduce customs delays for packages coming into Latin America.

The political parties proposed alternative plans to deal with the surplus: the Democrats proposed a tariff reduction to reduce customs revenue, the Republicans offered higher tariffs to reduce imports and customs revenue.

The most basic form is a free-trade area, such as EFTA, which eliminates or greatly reduces customs duties between its members.

President Bush and Prime Minister Jean Chrétien of Canada met today at the continent's most active border crossing for trade and announced new steps to reduce customs delays for authorized truckers and travelers while remaining vigilant against terrorists.

There should be no more signing of international agreements that reduce customs duties and other commercial barriers without including quantified and binding measures to combat fiscal and climate dumping in those same treaties.

To stimulate Portuguese industry and commerce, Peter concluded the Methuen Treaty (1703) with England, which agreed to reduce customs duties on Portuguese wines in return for favourable treatment of English woollen goods.

The results indicate that the tariff and the price elasticity of U.S. import demand during the 1880s below the maximum revenue rate, and therefore a tariff reduction would have reduced customs" revenue.Republicans proposed an increase in tariff rates to reduce revenues and ease "seemingly intractable fiscal surpluses".