Sentence examples for tough tariffs from inspiring English sources

On Tuesday, the Senate passed a bill that would require the Treasury Department to order the Commerce Department to impose tough tariffs on certain Chinese goods in the event of a finding by the Treasury that China was improperly valuing its currency to gain an economic advantage.

Osborne said on Friday that the government was doing "everything that is practicable and possible" to allow tougher tariffs on cheap steel.

The former chancellor Alistair Darling argued earlier this week that £250bn of trade could be lost if Britain had to resort to trading under less favourable World Trade Organisation rules - with tougher tariffs and regulations - while negotiations take place.

Steel companies are also getting a lift, on the prospect that Trump's tough talk on tariffs on cheap Chinese steel could come to fruition.

The newly departed British ambassador to America, Sir Christopher Meyer, said this week that Britain should have been tougher over steel tariffs when it was committing itself to fighting with America in Iraq.Mr Blair insists that such issues should be kept separate.

From an annual 10,000 tonnes a year for Britain in 1990, he says, his output now struggles to reach 15 tonnes.Many Western makers have sold their old machinery to India: still a big market but a tough one thanks to tariffs and local competition.

No amount of tariffs or tough talk on trade is going to make American manufacturing cheaper than foreign manufacturing; like it or not, we are living in a global economy.

A major problem for the administration is that most steel imports have been falling in recent years after surges during the Asian crisis in the late 1990's, making it tougher to justify punitive tariffs.

E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet Each candidate blamed the other for helping China to hoover up American jobs; they outdid each other on promises to get (or stay) tough, with Obama touting his tariffs on low-priced Chinese tires, and Romney reiterating his promise to declare China a currency manipulator.

Each candidate blamed the other for helping China to hoover up American jobs; they outdid each other on promises to get (or stay) tough, with Obama touting his tariffs on low-priced Chinese tires, and Romney reiterating his promise to declare China a currency manipulator.

Recently, the administration has signaled a tougher approach by imposing punitive tariffs against Chinese tires and steel pipes.