Sentence examples for steep import from inspiring English sources

Assembling vehicles inside the European Union will allow the company to avoid steep import taxes.

The bill includes a provision to eliminate steep import taxes on canned tuna from Andean nations while keeping taxes in place for other countries like the Philippines.

The hotel charges a hefty price for local bottled water and beer, and wine has a steep import duty attached to it by the government.

Hong Kong's attraction instead has been as a tax haven to avoid the 17 percent value-added tax in mainland China, plus steep import and consumption taxes that can add another 10 to 50 percent to the price tag there.

Thus they already enjoy higher prices for their exports than they could expect to find on the open market.The sugar producers of Mauritius, for example, sell their produce behind the EU's steep import barriers at three times the market rate.

After many years of protecting Proton, a government-controlled automaker, Malaysia is now starting to yield to pressure from other Southeast Asian nations to lower steep import duties on assembled cars.

Yet, the new U.S. farm bill extends the current steep ethanol import tariff — 54 cents a gallon — until 2010, to keep what Brazil makes out.

Business lobby groups have previously said consumers will face a steep rise in import costs on a range of goods from cars to clothes as a result of the currency drop.

China's Forestry Department eliminated steep duties on imported breeder crocodiles nearly a decade ago.

When the Bush administration imposed steep tariffs on imported steel, it became clear that this is no longer true.

If the country with the subsidies fails to remove them, other countries can retaliate by imposing steep tariffs on imports from that country.