Sentence examples for tariffs the first from inspiring English sources

Monday, the Commerce Ministry said it would initiate talks with Washington over the tire tariffs, the first step in launching a WTO proceeding.

The tariff, the first to offer smart-meter customers free electricity, will be fixed until March 2018 but analysts said there were cheaper deals on the market.

In 1861, Lincoln signed the second and third Morrill Tariff, the first having become law under James Buchanan.

In the United States, motor carriers of less-than-truckload shipments (say, 50 to 10,000 pounds) have point-to-point tariffs using the first three numbers in ZIP codes.

Great Britain began to abandon its protective tariffs in the first half of the 19th century after it had achieved industrial preeminence in Europe.

The imposition of the tariffs was the first time that the United States invoked a special safeguard provision that was part of its agreement to support China's entry into the W.T.O. in 2001.

The tariffs "are the first step in a multi-step process, but we believe they are a clear indication Suntech has been managing its business from a competitive perspective," said Andrew Beebe, the chief commercial officer of Suntech.

The July 2008 deal was scuttled in part because India insisted that developing countries must be able to steeply and quickly raise tariffs at the first sign of a sharp increase in food imports.

But if the U.S. were in the mood for that kind of deal, it would never have imposed the tariffs in the first place.

Data on the percentage increase in tariffs for the first and second review could not be found.

That cannot be right… So set a maximum tariff for the first part of  energy bills".