Sentence examples for to avoid duties from inspiring English sources

Since the colonial era, contraband trade has been significant in Panama among those wishing to avoid duties or other government controls.

The bribes went to extend drilling contracts for offshore rigs in Venezuela, to settle a customs dispute in India and to avoid duties on drilling equipment in Mexico.

The best offer so far is that, maybe, western companies will be allowed to avoid duties if they donate the goods in question to charities (including those favoured by the government, of course).

Much of the money is widely thought to have come from Russian trading companies that were trying to avoid duties and taxes or from rich Russians, many of whom have fled to Switzerland after the Soviet Union collapsed, to avoid taxation.

The final written records of her existence note that she was used as a watch vessel to spy on coastal smugglers using backwaters to avoid duties on lace, tobacco, brandy, and other goods from the continent.

As a junior officer he transferred to the 41st Regiment soon after to avoid duty in the East Indies, and in June 1789 transferred again, to the 12th (Prince of Wales's) Light Dragoons cavalry regiment.

He e-mailed asking me to resend it with papers claiming a lower value to help him avoid duty fees.

Others scissored them out to avoid import duties.

At the time, the Russian government agreed to accept quotas to avoid punitive duties.

Hitherto, to avoid import duties of 18-28%, manufacturers have had to buy their raw material from the United States.

In 1998, Russian steel producers agreed to deep cuts in their shipments to the United States to avoid punitive duties.