Sentence examples for tariff preferences from inspiring English sources

It also plans to suspend tariff preferences for Bolivia's imports.

For example, Great Britain and its Commonwealth countries operated a system of reciprocal tariff preferences after 1919.

The EU professes to want a more comprehensive approach that focuses on removing tariff peaks for such imports as textiles, glass and footwear, but would preserve tariff preferences for developing countries.Or consider dispute-settlement reform, which aims to fix flaws in WTO rules exposed by the EU's battle with America over bananas and beef hormones.

The tariff preferences being curtailed cover a variety of products, including tobacco and plastic bags, but do not apply to the country's garment industry, which does not have American duty-free status and represents the great bulk of that country's trade with the United States.

"Be aware", Peter Mandelson, Europe's top trade negotiator, warned the poorest countries last week, "that some of the alternative tariff-cutting proposals on the table will...wipe out whole sectors of your economy".However, the truth is that thanks to restrictive rules, tariff preferences, particularly the EU's, are less generous than they look.

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Members approved a regional tariff preference scheme in 1984 and expanded upon it in 1987 and 1990.

The declaration by Prime Minister R.L. Borden against entangling fiscal agreements applies to Great Britain as well as to the United States, as the Conservative party is opposed to any increase of the tariff preference accorded to British products.

The dispute has come to a head because of the EU's apparent failure to comply with a WTO ruling to drop its tariff preference for bananas from Caribbean and African ex-colonies over cheaper Latin American bananas.See article: The banana trade warAmerica is balking at any alliance between British Airways and American Airlines unless the firms make big concessions over Heathrow landing slots.

That may sound like a non-tariff preference for American firms in Peru, since, say, Japanese companies do not get the same guarantee.

If the Europeans lower their tariffs, these preferences are eroded.