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The directive would have imposed stricter controls on the sale of tobacco products in Europe, while preserving the existing ban on the sale of snus, a kind of chewing tobacco.
In 2002, President George W. Bush imposed a number of import restrictions, including headline tariffs of 30% on some steel products.
For example, if the US imposed an across-the-board import tariff of 25% on steel products, and imports collapsed to $15 billion – one-half of their 2017 value – the US would still acquire an extra $3.75 billion in annual revenues.
Trump has unilaterally imposed tariffs on other NATO members, citing national security concerns, of all things.
The financial sector has imposed huge externalities on the rest of society.
America’s financial industry polluted the world with toxic mortgages, and, in line with the well established “polluter pays” principle, taxes should be imposed on it.
In Greece, the main political fault line has been austerity policies imposed by European institutions and the International Monetary Fund.
Through such revelations what I call a "moral sentence" may be imposed on the guilty, and it is the existence of such a "sentence" which will arouse the type of deep public reflection necessary for the restoration of democracy.
If the Serbian side did not agree to it, the agreement would have to be imposed, and that act of imposition would certainly endanger the civilian population.
Third parties are justified in rejecting the risks that would be imposed upon them.
Thus, for example, last November, the US lifted its six-year embargo on military sales to Indonesia, imposed in 1999 in response to human rights abuses in East Timor.
The internal warfare may be quieter since John Kelly took over as White House Chief of Staff and imposed more order in the West Wing.
Kelly has imposed tight controls over who may enter the Oval Office, listens in on most of Trump’s phone calls during office hours, and controls what pieces of paper reach the president’s desk, thus eliminating the highly ideological screeds that some staff members used to slip him.
Europe’s stagnant growth in the second quarter has been explained away as an aberration reflecting the confluence of weather effects and sanctions imposed on Russia.
Similarly, the European Commission deemed subsidies to publicly-owned firms illegal if they distorted competition across member states, while the fiscal discipline imposed by the Euro ended pervasive general government credit subsidies--the essential lubricant of relationship-based systems.
Such sanctions should begin to be imposed when governments fail to meet minimum requirements for attaining medium-term objectives.
(US regulators have also imposed high penalties on foreign banks for breaches of American sanctions policies in relation to Iran.)
The reputational impact of each new settlement is modest, despite the escalation in the level of fines imposed.
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.
Instead, the foundation of religious politics is a shared belief, imposed from above, in ideological orthodoxy.
Much of it involved costly churning of portfolios, while increased leverage implied fragility for the financial system as a whole and imposed severe social costs as over-exposed households subsequently went bankrupt.
For most people, stability, even if imposed by authoritarian means, trumps disorder.
By all calculations, the burdens imposed by malaria on economic growth are huge.
This is concrete evidence that the old, imposed division of the world into two gigantic camps is, at long last, being replaced by a new division, far more logical, far more fitting for the present-day world and far more beneficial for humankind.
Trump has cited national security concerns in order to justify his tariffs – including the hefty tariffs on steel and aluminum (automotive imports may be next) that he has imposed.
In the eurozone, a sudden stop of capital flows to the periphery and the fiscal restraints imposed, with Germany’s backing, by the European Union, the International Monetary Fund, and the ECB have been a massive impediment to growth.
But now, because governments’ deployment of overwhelming financial resources to save selected private institutions deemed too big to fail caused sovereign debt to increase dramatically, officials have imposed fiscal austerity in deference to bond-market demands.
For the most part, the quick fixes they have imposed so far have not been very successful.
Syriza’s economic program rejects the austerity policies supported – or, some might say, imposed – by the so-called “troika” (the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank, and the European Commission).
Vietnam and the Philippines have been bullied in this way recently, with both pushing back rather than submit to Chinese imposed terms.
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