In the United Kingdom the Economy 7 tariff is appropriate.

In order to enjoy the lower rates, the house must be on a special electricity tariff.

In Kenya, a new feed in tariff is triggering an expansion of wind and geothermal power.

A feed in tariff subsidizes the low carbon energy source rather than taxing the high carbon energy source.

A recent Congressional bill has called for imposing a 27.5 punitive tariff on Chinese imports.

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

Yet several European countries have successfully introduced the idea of a feed in tariff, which provides the core of a politically acceptable long term solution.

A small and gradually rising carbon tax that funds a feed in tariff system could win political support in the US.

By the end of 1994, products of any member country would be able to circulate throughout the region without any tariff.

But America's swing back toward protectionism started long before, with President George W. Bush's steel tariff of 2001.

20. The cost of petrol increased from 1.14 per gallon to 2 per gallon owing to the imposition by the local authorities of a tariff on fuel in May 1994.

At a similar social cost to ROCs, a feed in tariff would give confidence to utilities and suppliers of components to undertake the required heavy investment.

Instead, the Smoot Hawley Tariff Act closed off American markets and provoked other countries into a spiral of retaliatory trade measures.

After an investigation by the US International Trade Commission, President Reagan imposed in 1983 a 45 tariff on imported bikes with engine capacities greater than 700 cc.

In fact, Europe s biggest successes in promoting low carbon energy have come from its feed in tariffs, and carbon taxes in some countries, rather than its cap and trade system.

A Central American Uniform Customs Code (CAUCA) was agreed upon and negotiations were carried out to establish a Central American common external tariff (with a 5 per cent floor and 20 per cent ceiling).

35. At their recent meeting, the Presidents of MERCOSUR member countries had established a common external tariff and had made great progress in dismantling the barriers to trade between their countries.

He noted that Montserrat must join CARICOM members in applying the Common External Tariff (CET), which allows goods from CARICOM countries to enter other CARICOM countries free of import duties.

Following the passage of America s Smoot Hawley Tariff in 1930, countries raised trade barriers in a tit for tat frenzy, with no rules to constrain their behavior. The architects of the postwar global order therefore established the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in 1947, which embodied such rules as does the World Trade Organization, which absorbed and expanded the GATT in 1995.

The Council also examined the results of the efforts made by the Economic and Financial Cooperation Committee to standardize customs tariffs, and by the Council of Ministers of Finance and Economy to reach agreement on the standardization and application of customs tariffs in order to accelerate the process of integration between Council States.

At the recent meeting of the Presidents of the MERCOSUR countries, held in Buenos Aires on 5 August, they took a decisive step forward by agreeing by consensus to establish a common external tariff.

At the time, I proposed that the UK switch from a ROC regime to a 20 year feed in tariff. I still believe that this is the right way to proceed.

Furthermore, the CFA has yet to establish a functional common external tariff, and intra franc zone trade stands at a mere 12 of its members total exports and imports.

The Commission also advocated that the Government revisit the tariff structure of cement in order to make the landed price of imported cement from Zimbabwe more competitive than it was at the time.

Policy mistakes ranging from tax hikes to poor central bank decisions to a global wave of protectionism (most famously America s Smoot Hawley tariff) turned a deep recession into the Great Depression.

As of next January, we will have brought into force a common external tariff, along with Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay, and will have consolidated a Customs Union capable of generating growth and prosperity, one of the first customs unions among developing countries.

Japan and the United States apply specific duties to imports of crude petroleum oil (HS 270900) on an MFN basis, while Australia, Canada, the European Union and Switzerland import that product under zero MFN tariff.

The sky every Afghan sees the sky as a source of fear.

The local office of the contracted shipping company included in the freight charges an estimated fine of US 50,000 which it would have to pay in order to enter United States ports after operating in a Cuban port.

In his letter of resignation, Mr. Brandt cited differences with the Chief Minister over the economic policy of the Government, including the introduction of the Common External Tariff (CET) (see para. 29), interference in the administration of his Ministry and the dismissal of overseas tourism representatives. 4

MERCOSUR is consolidating itself with the adoption of a common external tariff, which comes into effect on 1 January 1995, which will establish a customs union, and at the same time aims to promote associative links with other Latin American countries, such as Bolivia and Chile.

In the Depression, according to Kindleberger, the US should have provided an open market to foreign goods. Instead, the Smoot Hawley Tariff Act closed off American markets and provoked other countries into a spiral of retaliatory trade measures.

Free minimum service, increasing block tariffs, and subsidies to low income households, particularly for connection charges, are some of the actions that can help in expanding access to the unserved poor.

Policy mistakes ranging from tax hikes to poor central bank decisions to a global wave of protectionism (most famously America s Smoot Hawley tariff) turned a deep recession into the Great Depression. We should not repeat those mistakes now.

The Commission also held that since the mobile interconnection rate would be regulated in future, the merged entity would not be able to abuse its position in that market however as an interim measure, the Commission approved the transaction on condition that the merged entity did not charge interconnection fees on a discriminatory basis.

Well designed feed in tariff programs offer investors the transparency, longevity, and certainty that they seek and these incentives have backed approximately 75 of solar photovoltaic capacity and 45 of wind capacity built worldwide through 2008.

In any US presidential election campaign, you can be sure that protectionism will break in, as it has. But America's swing back toward protectionism started long before, with President George W. Bush's steel tariff of 2001.

Tobacco benefits from the highest preferential margin by virtue of ACP treatment, as this product faces an MFN tariff of 18.4 , with a minimum specific duty of 22 euros and a maximum specific duty of 24 euros per 100 kilograms.