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So, it is worth asking if he thinks his successor will be better suited than he is to carry out the critically important duties of public service.
The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) that governed Mexico uninterrupted for seven decades (until its recent loss of the presidency to Vincente Fox) had been a strong advocate of government ownership of heavy industry, prohibitive duties on imports to protect domestic companies, and detailed regulation of labor and financial markets.
At a recent Eurasian Economic Commission session in Sochi, Belarus and Kazakhstan rejected the Kremlin’s proposal to introduce customs duties for goods imported from Ukraine if the country signed the EU association agreement.
Of course, in a real-life situation, there may be several ethically relevant features and corresponding duties – and they may conflict with one another.
Some participants from the developing countries wanted poverty to be declared a proscribed basis of discrimination, while others argued that poverty is far too vague a concept to be the subject of legal rights and duties.
These participants argued that specific legal duties, such as the right to a minimum wage and the right to vocational training, are more effective than the vague extension of anti-discrimination law to cover poverty as such.
Other areas that need to be plugged include money laundering and other proceeds of crime, wealth hidden in offshore tax havens, tax avoidance, and the dodging of custom duties.
These rice exporters, including the US, also maintain stiff import duties, thereby protecting domestic farmers from global competition.
African governments sharply reduced or eliminated duties on imported rice in the 1990’s, urged on by the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and influential free-market economists.
In response, a few African countries have raised duties on rice, violating a key tenet of neo-liberal trade philosophy.
But rice duties are working in Uganda – and in Nigeria, where rice output is also soaring and the value of imported rice is declining – and policymakers rightly believe that they must be maintained.
Even Korea and Japan maintain massive duties on imported rice simply to protect the livelihoods of their own rice farmers.
Even though the US does impose import duties on Chinese steel (and many other products), the motive hardly seems to be to lower the world price of steel.
If the ethical values in Islamic finance – grounded in sharia religious law – can further deter moral hazard and the abuse of fiduciary duties by financial institutions, Islamic finance could prove to be a serious alternative to current models of derivative finance.
The commitments of single countries like Germany to over-fulfill their duties are useless.
By far the most widely used instrument are anti-dumping duties aimed at imposing some restraint on companies that behave in an anti-competitive way.
NME status made it a lot easier for importing countries to impose special tariffs on Chinese exports, in the form of antidumping duties.
Under WTO rules, however, pricing below costs on the part of exporters is sufficient for imposing import duties, even when it is standard competitive practice – such as during economic downturns.
Since the WTO was established in 1995, more than 3,000 antidumping duties have been put in place (with India, the US, and the EU being the heaviest users).
Global citizens should be wary that their lofty goals do not turn into an excuse for shirking their duties toward their compatriots.
If these people can say with a straight face that they didn’t know what was going on, they are either not being completely forthcoming, or they failed to carry out one of a board’s fundamental duties – asking hard questions and holding the executive team to account, especially when things seem too good to be true.
Uncertainty about whether the Obama administration can marshal enough votes in Congress to ratify the TPP has now been compounded by proposed legislation that would impose tariff duties on countries that engage in “currency manipulation.”
In Britain, which in June will hold a referendum on withdrawal from the European Union, these sentiments are crudely stirred by anti-EU ministers who lie about the extent to which an allegedly dictatorial regime in Brussels interferes with the discharge of their official duties.
Abolishing customs duties would reduce the ability of governments to interfere with economic development; they would have to compete to attract investment to their territory instead of posing obstacles as they do at present.
In the meantime, however, there will be an increase in diesel excise duties, and a 20% surcharge on property taxes will be imposed on unoccupied second homes in densely populated areas.
Anti-dumping rules can also be improved by requiring that consumer and producer interests that would be adversely affected by import duties take part in domestic proceedings.
This can be done in several ways: by means tests that impose duties on many parents; by loans to be repaid under favourable conditions; by a special tax on graduates; or by mixtures of such approaches involving a generous system of bursaries as well as charges on well-to-do parents.
What are the rights and duties of scientists and governments who consider the risks to be graver than their counterparts in other countries do?
These reforms reflected an overwhelming consensus that the Fed had been derelict in fulfilling its duties.
What is needed is careful consideration of how best to balance humanitarian imperatives with security concerns, domestic social welfare with international legal obligations, and member countries’ duties to one another with their responsibilities to their own citizens.
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