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Beyond enumerating rights, the Commission argued for a new clarity about who should carry out the corresponding duties, and how.
The disastrous demonetization process of November 2016 spurred widespread criticism of the RBI for failing to perform its fiduciary
duties.
It is already a profound peculiarity that customs
duties
in a customs union are still administered nationally.
This boxes in the true judges, for if they protest by boycotting their supervisory duties, the task will fall once more to police from the infamous Ministry of the Interior.
Launched in 2014 in Barcelona, the forum, which meets annually, operates on the principle that healthy and sustainable urban centers – a key component of any country’s dynamism and success – depend on the equal rights, duties, and opportunities of its residents.
Part One would lay down the rights and
duties
of European citizens as well as of States; the underlying values of a united Europe; and the meaning and objectives of integration.
In 1930, the US enacted the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, which raised import
duties
on more than 20,000 goods.
But now its chickens are coming home to roost, with a growing number of countries imposing antidumping or punitive
duties
on Chinese goods.
President Barack Obama’s decision to introduce steep
duties
(set at 35% in the first year) in response to a US International Trade Commission ruling (sought by US labor unions) has been widely criticized as stoking the protectionist fires.
In many developing countries, total tax revenue is derived from three main sources: domestic taxes on goods and services (sales and excise taxes), direct taxes (primarily on corporations), and, most important, taxes on foreign trade (import duties).
But, as trade liberalization has lowered tariffs and duties, the share of trade taxes has declined, while other sources have not compensated for falling trade revenue.
Indeed, frustrated with adults’ failure to discharge what should be their
duties
toward children, young people are forming child-marriage-free zones, launching anti-slavery groups, and organizing education-rights campaigns.
Here the G-20 could play a particularly constructive role, especially when it comes to the revival of the Doha Trade Round, the reduction of duties, tariffs and quotas on exports from the least-developed countries, and the gradual elimination of domestic subsidies.
Beyond the obvious availability of countervailing
duties
as an enforcement tool, several of the DSM’s institutional characteristics, which are absent in the ICSID, help to create and sustain legitimacy.
They, like all other Swedish authorities, will discharge their
duties
according to the law.
As Vietnam’s Youth Newspaper reported in 2010, there is an underground market for diplomatic license plates: for about $20,000, the purchaser can avoid tens, even hundreds, of thousands of dollars in customs
duties.
But the stability of a genuinely multi-polar system cannot be taken for granted, for it will require each of the monetary poles to agree to depart from purely domestic priorities and stand ready to fulfill its international duties, both in normal times and during crises.
Capital flight stems from myriad causes: debt servicing, the awarding to foreign firms of almost all contracts financed by multilateral lenders (and exemptions from taxes and
duties
on these goods and services), unfavorable terms of trade, speculation, free transfer of benefits, foreign exchange reserves held in foreign accounts, and domestic private capital funneled abroad.
The first is trade remedies, such as anti-dumping duties, which are generally used to combat unfair trade practices, but can easily be exploited by politicians who seek to blame other countries for their own industries’ lack of competitiveness.
The president could also be forced to leave office under the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, which provides for the removal of a president deemed incapable of fulfilling the
duties
of office.
But interpretations of Islamic law have traditionally been so focused on questions about mankind’s various
duties
that they have failed to recognize it.
Trump is clearly incapable of executing the
duties
of his office in good faith.
Barring that, Vice President Mike Pence should have long ago invoked the 25th Amendment, which provides for the removal of a president whom a majority of the cabinet has deemed “unable to discharge the powers and
duties
of his office.”
And she has advocated imposing countervailing
duties
on goods from countries that qualify as exchange-rate manipulators.
Like Clinton, he opposes the TPP and supports countervailing
duties
for currency manipulators.
Trump has threatened to raise tariffs on imports from Europe, and some of those higher
duties
are already in place.
Domestic resources constitute the largest pool of funds available to developing countries, which mobilized $7.7 trillion in 2012, largely through taxes, duties, and natural-resource concessions.
To be taken seriously, we have to put our money where our mouths are, by accepting international
duties
and responsibilities – like helping to stop atrocity crimes in faraway places – that are consistent with our claims to good international citizenship but serve no immediate traditional national security or economic interest.
Duties
Without BordersCAMBRIDGE – More than 130,000 people are said to have died in Syria’s civil war.
So what are a leader’s
duties
beyond borders?
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