Sentence examples for stiff duties from inspiring English sources

Topping the news this hour, Micron Technology shares are higher today, after South Korea offered to cut memory chip shipments to the U.S. South Korea waived the olive branch threat in response to a U.S. decision to put stiff duties on memory chip shipments from the country's Hynix Semiconductor.

In return, the United States would eliminate the stiff extra duties on imports from Vietnam.

But, Trump's threat to impose stiff import duties on Mexican cars and machinery parts suggests he would consider disregarding WTO rules.

Toyota will be able to ship them to Thailand without facing the stiff import duties that would have made this practice too expensive in the past.

Bobby pins or hair pins work best, but you can also use heavy-duty paperclips, or other stiff bits of wire.

"I consider it to be my public duty to make it a stiff sentence intended to discourage others from yielding to similar temptation".

Elsewhere Gloucester, who have 10 players unavailable through World Cup duty or injury, face a stiff test as they start their trophy defence at home to the in-form London Irish tomorrow.

Currently some 80% of these countries' goods come into the U.S. duty free, while many U.S. exports to them still face stiff tariffs.

Vivendi reported a record annual profit of €2.9bn (£2.47bn) in part thanks to the "exceptional" performance of Call of Duty publisher Activision Blizzard, but admitted earnings will not grow until 2014 due to stiff competition in the telecoms market.

With this comes a stiff-upper-lip sense of duty exemplified by Harry, Ron and Hermione, and the snobbery, elitism and sense of entitlement that goes with it.

It looked to them like a manufactured piece of metal, subject to stiff duties they classified it, eventually, with "kitchen utensils and hospital supplies".