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And it collects extremely high import duties for agricultural products.
The system of agricultural protectionism that this compromise produced survives to this day, exemplified in import duties of 69% on beef and 26% for pork.
The most important competition issue for developing countries, however, is reform of dumping duties.
Thus, its Self Defense Forces must continue fulfilling their duties of "humanitarian and restoration efforts," while cooperating with Japan's key ally, the US, as a member of an integrated multinational force under UN leadership.
China’s multitude of export taxes and duties has forced Western companies to pay almost twice as much as their Chinese counterparts, creating a powerful incentive for Western manufacturers to set up shop in the Middle Kingdom to gain cheaper access to these indispensable resources.
The essential elements of modern European political life – individual rights and duties, and the accountability of government to the governed – are lacking, particularly in the Arab Middle East.
Europe’s rejection of this challenge would betray its fundamental duties in a place – small, Mediterranean, flexible, with old historical traditions – where democracy stands a much greater chance of success than in Ukraine, which is both huge and still very Soviet-minded, not to mention Central Asia.
As functionaries of the state, they had certain duties imposed by law: to evaluate and characterize the risks that were present in L’Aquila.”
But they also enjoy equal rights, and have the same duties, in the public arena.
Could the restoration of America’s international reputation turn out to be bad for Europe, by eroding its new monopoly on representing Western values and calling it back to its hard power duties?
The rest received their doctorates (mostly in economics, management, law, and industrial engineering) through part-time programs while performing their duties as busy government officials.
Unilateral countervailing duties against countries that are hypothetically manipulating their exchange rates are equally bad.
In order to facilitate their religious duties, the Orthodox metropolitans were granted Turkish citizenship.
One of his cabinet appointees was arrested for corruption within two weeks of Leung’s assumption of his official duties.
According to recent OECD research as much as one-third of workers in advanced economies are either underutilized or unable to handle their current duties.
Of course, the head of state – whether the president or the monarch – has other critical duties as well, including acting as guarantor of the constitution and a symbol of national unity.
Special import privileges, say, for the right to import foodstuffs into Moscow without paying duties, were reportedly given to members of Yeltsin's entourage.
Europe’s elected national leaders have a large role to play, and they must not eschew their duties.
Donors would transfer their tissue to a charitable trust, and would collectively appoint a trustee, who would have legal fiduciary duties to use the tissue for the benefit of the public.
The third mistake was to raise import duties, especially for imported cars.
Street protests against the import duties became the first serious popular uprising that Russia has seen in many years.
Non-Western societies often espouse a communitarian ethic that sees society as more than the sum of its individual members, and considers duties to be more important than rights.
Speculation is growing, for example, about whether Kim Sol-song – the second daughter of Kim Jong-il’s third wife – will be appointed when Kim Kyong-hui is no longer able to perform her duties.
To reverse America’s decline, Obama needs bipartisan support for his (quite mainstream) policies, but so far the US Congress has shown no stomach for a principled approach to its legislative duties.
The World Trade Organization upheld America’s duties on Chinese tires, and Canada has extended its review of the China National Offshore Oil Corporation’s bid to acquire Nexen, a Canadian oil and gas producer.
Regardless of how this crisis develops from this point, the UN has neglected its duties by asking a wimp to lead the inspectors who are supposed to stand up to the brute of Baghdad.
The second option, per Section 4 of the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, would require the vice president and the cabinet or Congress to declare the president “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.”
Yet it should be recognized that the Court’s personnel are carrying out their duties.
Other coordination duties include regional security (through the East African Standby Force), coordinated airspace management, as well as joint tourism marketing.
In a desperate effort to do something – anything – to defend their economies, they turned to protectionism, imposing “exchange-rate dumping” duties, and import quotas to offset the loss of competitiveness caused by their own increasingly overvalued currencies.
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