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At the same time, the agreement eliminates most import tariffs for commodities like rice, yellow corn, or dairy products.
The fuel for the air base came mostly from Russia, and the main Pentagon contractor’s local dealers falsely claimed that it was intended for domestic civilian consumption, thereby benefiting from lower import tariffs.
Instead, America’s NAFTA partners will respond strategically to limits on their exports, adjusting their trade relationships with each other and with others, in order to mitigate the impact of US import controls.
But, as Martin Feldstein and George Shultz recently put it, “if a country consumes more than it produces, it must import more than it exports.
During my premiership, my government sought to investigate RosUkrEnergo – to discover who precisely its owners are, how it gained a virtual monopoly on the import of Central Asian gas, and where its profits go.
Since the 1980’s, governments have been pressed to promote exports to earn foreign exchange and import food.
Some countries and regions that were previously self-sufficient in food now import large quantities of it.
Rather than remaking the world in its image, the EU fears neighbors that export chaos rather than import values.
Old models of economic growth, however, such as export orientation and selective use of import restrictions that worked well for East Asia in the last century, are less feasible under today's global trade rules.
And the only way for the trade deficit to shrink substantially is for net imports to fall, which requires either a relatively sharp decline in the value of the dollar, thereby raising import prices, or a depression in the US.
The resulting weakness of the US economy will mean lower US import demand.
Membership would require Ukraine to double import tariffs on EU goods, at an annual cost equivalent to 4% of GDP; and it would not even guarantee free trade among its members (Russia already applies trade sanctions against Belarus and Kazakhstan).
Even in the Stalin era – when the economy was much more closed than in Czarist times – industrialization required the import of Western capital and knowhow.
The last generation of Soviet leaders well understood the importance of maintaining living standards, which is why they used revenues from oil and gas exports to import consumer goods.
In the 1996 presidential campaign, resentments and exaggerations of import competition surfaced in economic nationalism, espoused by Pat Buchanan and Ross Perot on the right and trade union leaders on the left.
However, it has also limited the expansion of domestic demand and import growth, exacerbating rather than redressing the global imbalances.
Exchange rates should be realigned in a coordinated fashion to stimulate exports from deficit countries and import demand from surplus countries.
And China’s banks pumped massive amounts of credit into the country’s economy, enabling it to sustain import demand, which was critical to the global recovery.
Subsidies, domestic-content requirements, investment regulations, and, yes, often import barriers were critical to the creation of new, higher-value industries.
In fact, the most phenomenal export-oriented growth experiences to date – Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China – all occurred when import tariffs in the US and Europe were at moderate levels, and higher than where they are today.
Yet, from 2006 to 2008, China’s annual exports grew 23.4%, outpacing import growth of 19.7%.
For example, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have banned the import or manufacture of conventional plastics for a wide range of products, and both now require that plastic products be upgraded with OBP technology.
Moreover, the currency depreciation in the wake of the Bank of Japan’s efforts to increase the annual inflation rate to 2% is expected to benefit exporters, though a substantial effect on the trade balance is yet to be seen, probably owing to higher import costs.
In particular, thermal electricity plants have replaced the country’s nuclear plants – offline since the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011 – and the weak yen has hit the import bill for oil and gas hard.
So, when companies from the mainland dealt with each other, they would export to Hong Kong first and then import back to the mainland, resulting in the transaction being treated as an export.
We are obliged to ensure that the fish that we import is caught sustainably, so that our markets do not fuel the decline of the oceans and the fishing communities that depend on them, especially those in the poorest countries.
Import tariffs for cars will be raised from their current 25% - the highest tariff - to a prohibitive 70% for imported cars older then seven years, which compete with new Russian cars.
The import of hundreds of thousands of old Western cars each year has raised living standards for Russia's new middle class.
The key question is who would benefit if Germany started to import more.
Special import privileges, say, for the right to import foodstuffs into Moscow without paying duties, were reportedly given to members of Yeltsin's entourage.
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