Sentence examples for transit duties from inspiring English sources

As the name implies, transit duties are levied by the country through which the goods pass.

In exchange for certain fees, the za enjoyed official recognition and exemptions from tolls, transit duties, and market taxes.

Dastak, in 18th-century Bengal, a permit exempting European traders, mostly of the British East India Company, from paying customs or transit duties on their private trade.

The development of the German Zollverein (a customs union) in the first half of the 19th century resulted in part from Prussia's exercise of its power to levy transit duties.

The most direct and immediate effect of transit duties is a reduction in the amount of commodities traded internationally and an increase in the cost of those products to the importing country.

A transit duty, or transit tax, is a tax levied on commodities passing through a customs area en route to another country.

It was days later that Officer Maloney, then a 26-year-old assigned to transit duty and still on workplace probation, decided to speak up about what he had seen, breaking the wall of silence that has stymied investigations into police misconduct.

Sir Richard Temple, governor of the Bengal and Bombay Presidencies, wrote in 1882 that "the inland customs line for levying the salt-duties has been at length swept away" and that care must be taken to ensure that the "evils of the obsolete transit-duties" did not return.

Officer Delacruz, 38, was suspended without pay for a month, then reassigned to transit police duty.

For international clients, UPS is testing software that would compute an estimate of time-in-transit and duties and taxes that must be paid two of the biggest uncertainties for many international shippers.

Sure, these machines were incredible around 1999, but the Muni system is outdated; while voters keep pumping their tax dollars into it, retrofittings and upgrades are rarely approved because most of the money is reclaimed by police, ambulances, and other city services in the form of bills for "transit-related duties," a number that jumped from $36 million in 2006 to $65 million in 2012.