Sentence examples for tariff advantage from inspiring English sources

This resulted in "a ten percentage-point average tariff advantage over foreign suppliers", according to a study commissioned by the administration and carried out by Data Resources Inc.

He was originally of the mind that government's role was to maintain high tariffs to advantage American products over cheap imports.

Over the longer term they will also allow consumers on smart tariffs to take advantage of off-peak deals – cut-price electricity at night, or when there is a plentiful supply because wind turbines are working at full capacity – at which point it is expected that everyone would run their washing machine.

If a country manipulates its currency to gain an unfair advantage, the tariff on its goods and services sold to the United States would rise back to the level that would have existed without the free trade agreement, Mr. Levin proposes.

Being inside a free trade area with an external tariff barrier provides major advantages; leave it and you are subject to that barrier, which raises the price of your goods and services.

These tariffs, plus the advantages of a supply chain closer to America, and the need for retailers to diversify suppliers, ought to be enough to offset cheaper Asian labour costs, figured Mr Ross as long as the domestic industry also merged and trimmed itself into better shape.

The issue of the tariff worked to the Republicans' advantage in 1888.

So a democracy might want a tariff to remove the price advantage of goods made at "less cost" in countries without those protections.

Indeed, pressure from telcos led the Commission to rewrite its 'roam like at home' plan in fall last year to incorporate a 'fair use' policy to try to allay operators' fears of so-called 'permanent roamers' (i.e. EU citizens taking advantage of lower tariffs in certain European countries to avoid paying higher domestic mobile tariffs).

Chinese manufacturers dominate the domestic market for basic colour TVs and will continue to enjoy a strong price advantage when import tariffs are cut after WTO entry.

Perhaps Tindall's boldest move was to aggressively take advantage of lower tariffs on imports during the wave of privatization and deregulation in the 1980s.