Sometimes they are a precursor to import restraints.

2390 Internal taxes and charges levied on imports n.e.s.

During those years, the rise in the volume of net imports just balanced the effect of the dollar s fall on the total cost of imports.

They will remain an important source of import demand, especially for high technology and industrial goods.

The country relies on Russia for various imports, including petroleum.

But this restructuring will tend to reduce, not increase, import demand, as exports and investment are much more import intensive than consumption.

(c) Imports exports

6350 Import diversification

(Millions of United States dollars)

Cheap imports ameliorate the effects of wage stagnation.

3110 Minimum import prices

3340 Flexible import fees

4110 Advance import deposit

They may increase the import cost in a fashion similar to tariff measures.

Illegal Imports Detected

All aggressively promoted investment and exports while discouraging (or remaining agnostic about) imports.

Such a revaluation would also discourage exports and encourage imports, thereby reducing China s chronic trade surplus.

He focused taxation on imports and nonessential goods, like whiskey.

Petrol is being sold in very limited amounts.

Some Chinese have called for a boycott of imports from the Philippines.

This is reminiscent of the defiance of the Supreme Court stay order in September 2004 on iron ore that was shipped from Buchanan port over a period of six months.

Russia is genuinely promoting the liberalization of international trade by lowering import duties and applying a special preferential regime to the imports from many developing countries, primarily from the group of least developed countries.

Those investments will drain most of the country s domestic savings and sustain high demand for imports.

The obvious way to square this circle is to spend more on imports.

The result will be to raise the prices of China s exports and fuel demand for imports.

For example, the external deficit is narrowing sharply on the back of higher exports and lower imports.

The logic of the liberal approach is that the economic benefits of trade arise from imports the cheaper the imports, the better, even if the result is a trade deficit.

And we are now well on the way to diminishing returns.

Port includes import, export and berthing taxes.

Associated with import demand elasticity estimates, quantity measures can be translated into price effects quite safely.

Countries are taking measures to track and document fish imports.

The Customs (Prohibition and Restriction on Imports and Exports) Order 1980, listed radioactive materials as restricted imports under Schedule 2 and can only be imported through licensing granted by the Controller of Customs.

Manufactured imports into Japan have increased considerably.

Each country may also be tempted by protectionist measures, trying to preserve domestic jobs at the expense of imports.

Moreover, it would boost food supplies and reduce Afghanistan s exorbitant dependence on imports.

Against the advice of his economic advisers, he announces across the board import duties on Chinese exports.

The resulting weakness of the US economy will mean lower US import demand.

American exasperation has probably been curbed by its need to borrow so much money much of it from China. But Obama s recent tariffs on tire imports may be a sign of things to come.

Israel s government has denied that people are starving and has relaxed its import restriction regime.

Angola has been dependent on commercial imports since 1977 and was heavily dependent up to the end of the war.

The Liberian International Ship and Corporate Registry is a major source of revenue for the National Transitional Government of Liberia. LISCR has not had an independent audit since 2000, the year it was created. The Bureau of Maritime Affairs staff, co located with LISCR in their home offices in Virginia, United States, do not provide oversight because of lack of ability, lack of knowledge and lack of support from the Bureau.

For instance, quotas should provide reliable information for starting to investigate the possible impact on affected imports.

To obtain AVE measures, NTB quantity measures have to be associated with estimates of import demand elasticities.

An import boom creates only the illusion of economic strength.

The yen s weakening will mean higher import costs, and therefore a higher rate of inflation.