Canada's average tariff for imported goods is 3.1%, and the EU's average tariff for imported goods is 3%.
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Data show that such cost increases on cheaper imported goods will disproportionately affect the purses of low-income families who typically spend a larger fraction of their household income on cheaper imported goods.
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Currently there is no evidence to support transmission of Covid-19 associated with imported goods and there have not been any cases of Covid-19 in the United States associated with imported goods.
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When the currency drops, it makes imported goods more expensive.
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Imported goods, such as tyres, have a reference dollar price.
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Few voters will be happy paying more for imported goods.
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Lower exchange rates translate into higher prices for imported goods.
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The law raised tariffs on more than 28500,6900 imported goods.
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In 2015 it imported goods to the value of $127.2 billion.
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For one thing it would raise the cost of imported goods.
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And a weaker currency would increase the cost of imported goods.
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That's because it will raise prices on imported goods, he explained.
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That could change if a tax on imported goods is imposed.
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Then there's the issue of individual countries' restrictions on imported goods.
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ISTANBUL — Prices have soared on imported goods, scaring buyers and sellers.
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A stronger dollar also makes imported goods cheaper for American consumers.
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Germany imported goods from the United States worth 58 billion euros.
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Trump has threatened to put duties on all imported goods from China.
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That forced the closure of many businesses that relied on imported goods.
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She hasn't threatened to slap a 45 percent tariff on imported goods.
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When the lira loses value, imported goods become more expensive, feeding inflation.
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Both tariffs and a weaker currency have made imported goods more expensive.
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And money from the tax cuts helped Americans buy more imported goods.
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Not being able to deduct imported goods would dramatically change its tax situation.
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And it compounds Kuroda's difficulty in boosting inflation, by making imported goods cheaper.
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This is primarily attributable to a rise in the prices of imported goods.
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Britain's growing appetite for imported goods coincided with a collapse in manufacturing employment.
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A strong dollar makes Americans wealthier because they can consume more imported goods.
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It is simply a tax placed on some particular class of imported goods.
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The proposal would have hiked prices of imported goods to the United States.
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These tariffs have pressured retailers with large amounts of imported goods from China.
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Pricier imported goods could squeeze consumer spending, becoming a drag to the economy.
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EU countries were responsible for 53 percent of all of Britain's imported goods.
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Tariffs, by contrast, are a sales tax that only applies to imported goods.
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It also allows Benin to collect VAT and other fees on the imported goods.
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Almost 60% of imported goods from Canada and Mexico are inputs into American manufacturing.
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Retail stores sell (which means that U.S. consumers buy) a lot of imported goods.
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As a result, inflation has rocketed but there are also shortages of imported goods.
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For starters, imported goods often serve as inputs into production in the United States.
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The sanctions drove up the prices of imported goods or reduced supplies to zero.
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This makes imported goods cheaper and U.S. exports more expensive, pushing toward increased deficits.
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Many companies across America have complained about the White House's tariffs on imported goods.
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Trump has already rejected House Speaker Paul Ryan's border-adjustment tax on imported goods.
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Beyond Mexico, American guns often arrive through ports from Florida, hidden among other imported goods.
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But the restrictions have fueled inflation in a country that relies heavily on imported goods.
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In 1930, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act raised U.S. tariffs on over 2,000 imported goods.
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He said the unified procedures would make it easier to transport imported goods and commodities.
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Recent World Trade Organization data shows that America's average tariff for imported goods is 2.4%.
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In 2016, the U.K. exported goods worth $433.5 billion and imported goods worth $678.1 billion.
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Many imported goods are sold in black-market stores that do not assess products' quality.
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Vast numbers of laborers have lost jobs as imported goods from low-wage countries arrived.
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Higher tariffs don't necessarily mean that American consumers will pay higher prices for imported goods.
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He offered security, pride, imported goods, travel abroad and a false sense of Russian greatness.
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Trump has vowed to make companies that move overseas pay a tariff on imported goods.
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For local Turks, that means business is slowing and prices for imported goods are soaring.
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The currency crisis has led to a sharp increase in the prices of imported goods.
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The administration will slap tariffs on roughly $267 billion in imported goods starting Sept. 235.
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The survey on imported goods was widely publicized, and the Yankelovich agency was soon flourishing.
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Trump believes that increasing tariffs on imported goods will help reducing the U.S. trade deficit.
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In those regions, North Koreans have greater access to imported goods and Chinese TV channels.
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But it will be painful for a country that relies so much on imported goods.
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Tariff rate quotas are tariffs applied to a certain amount of quotas of imported goods.
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This further increased the number of bolivars available and provoked a decrease in imported goods.
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Money from the tax cuts helped Americans buy more imported goods than ever in 2018.
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And retailers hated the idea, because it taxes imported goods while exempting exports from taxes.
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The idea is unpopular with retailers and businesses that sell imported goods in the United States.
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The proposal in the House GOP plan would put a 20 percent tax on imported goods.
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The scramble for foreign exchange is crippling businesses and pushing up the cost of imported goods.
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With its currency in freefall, inflation has soared as the price of imported goods has skyrocketed.
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Trump's latest round of tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese imported goods went into effect Monday.
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The World Trade Organization says Chinese tariffs on imported goods are generally higher than U.S. tariffs.
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Today, in the world of overpriced imported goods and food insecurity, the traditional hunts still continue.
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If the value of the currency fully adjusts, stores that sell imported goods will be fine.
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Mohamed, who has imported goods this way, said transfers were made mostly from Gulf Arab countries.
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That in turn pushes up the costs of imported goods to the detriment of real incomes.
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"There is power within the White House to increase duties on imported goods," Hufbauer tells me.
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Most of our budget (2628 percent) is funded by clearance revenues — indirect taxes on imported goods.
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ImportGenius tallied 193 shipments for imported goods associated with Ms. Trump for the year through Dec.
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He's also considering a border tax on imported goods not already subject to a carbon price.
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The tax burden would be shifted toward importers, but also toward people who buy imported goods.
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These wouldn't be small increases; in many industries, imported goods are one of the biggest expenses.
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Gold traders are also awaiting further news on plans for U.S. tariffs on some imported goods.
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American consumers have rising incomes, and inevitably they spend part of that income on imported goods.
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That means that in the end, imported and non-imported goods are taxed exactly the same.
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And since many U.S. companies use overseas suppliers, tariff hikes could make imported goods too pricey.
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Such a tax would essentially levy a 20 percent tax on imported goods, while exempting exports.
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The drop in the currency has raised the cost of imported goods and commodities priced in dollars.
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Among other objections, retailers whose imported goods would be taxed have warned loudly that consumers will suffer.
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While sterling's weakness after last year's EU referendum has made imported goods pricier, the effect will fade.
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The pound's fall has affected profitability for many companies, as imported goods have become even more expensive.
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The devaluation has led to a surge in prices—and not just in imported goods like nappies.
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The closer to the top of the chart, the more dependent that industry is on imported goods.
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Additionally, protectionist policies may increase the price of imported goods and raise domestic wages, furthering inflation concerns.
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There were also declines in the cost of imported goods from Canada, the European Union and Mexico.
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Under EU rules, Brussels can claim a share of taxes on imported goods raised by EU countries.
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The cost of imported goods from China was unchanged in September after slipping 0.1 percent in August.
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The border adjustment tax, a value-added tax levied on imported goods, has divided Republicans in Congress.
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Amazon handles imported goods from China by reserving space on ocean vessels and organizing its own logistics.
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He vowed to impose a 35 percent tax on imported goods of companies that moved jobs overseas.
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Energy prices and prices of non-energy imported goods were expected to begin steadily rising next year.
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Exiting the organization would likely raise prices on imported goods and make it more difficult for exporters.
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This has lifted the price of imported goods, forcing Turks to pay more for food and fuel.
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The president said he would impose a 5 percent tax on all imported goods beginning June 303.
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A weaker currency will push up the prices of imported goods, causing inflation to rise even further.
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The higher utility costs are hitting the manufacturing sector hard, particularly companies that compete against imported goods.
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The disapproval of Trump is largely driven by the administration's decision to increase tariffs on imported goods.
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The price of imported goods in supermarkets is up, and thus so is the cost of living.
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Conversely, imported goods often contain high U.S. content in the form of physical materials or intangible contributions.
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The higher prices on imported goods are the latest data point this week hinting at stronger inflation.
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You can read more details here, but the idea is to tax imported goods but not exports.
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There were also reports that President-elect Donald Trump was considering a 21980 percent tariff on imported goods.
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Consumers of imported goods may see them become more expensive and travelers will find foreign trips more costly.
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By the late 21973s, however, the merchandise trade deficit — the excess of imported goods over exports — turned negative.
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Shay said that policies like raising taxes on imported goods would hurt consumers, especially the country's lowest earners.
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Asia's third-largest economy imported goods worth $33.99 billion last month, up 15.42 percent from a year ago.
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If the government imposes a tariff, or border tax, on our imported goods, who will pay the price?
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More recently, as countries like Vietnam and China have become manufacturing giants, consumers have enjoyed cheap imported goods.
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This is particularly important for Americans since we buy many imported goods, such as cars, electronics and textiles.
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The average tariff rate on all imported goods will rise from 1.4 percent to just over 2 percent.
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"The residents of india and China love imported goods, and that's exactly what we provide," a representative said.
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And tariffs on imported goods only work if those goods make it to market, which brings us to...
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Big box retailers like Walmart, whose cheap prices depend on imported goods, are also allied with the Kochs.
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Mr. Trump's tariffs would raise the prices of imported goods sharply, cutting the purchasing power of every American.
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A chronic shortage of dollars has led to long queues outside banks and imported goods are running out.
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Trade Tariffs on imported goods and retaliation by US trading partners like China created problems for American manufacturers.
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At first glance, tariffs on imported goods might appear as a stepping-stone in our America First objective.
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The aim was to become self-reliant on domestic production and penalize those who exported or imported goods.
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The pound plunged 15% against the dollar after the 2016 vote, pushing the price of imported goods higher.
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Many Iranian companies depend on imported goods to make and sell products, from machinery to steel to grain.
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In middle-class neighborhoods large supermarkets previously stocked with imported goods are now half stocked with cheaper versions.
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Analysts said the falling rupee could lead to higher inflation as Indians pay more for imported goods and services.
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Tariffs on goods from countries like China and Mexico would bump up costs on imported goods for U.S. consumers.
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And Trump's tough talk on trade could bring new tariffs on imported goods that further increase prices for consumers.
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On Friday, the U.S. raised tariffs on $200 billion worth of imported goods from China to 25% from 10%.
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Pinduoduo was already delivering imported goods to customers, a business that it said had seen surging transactions last year.
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Trump's China tariffs have fallen mainly on imported goods used in industrial production with minimal direct hits to consumers.
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She also called for new trade policies for pharmaceuticals and agriculture products, including establishing new standards for imported goods.
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Trump said on Friday he was ready to impose tariffs on all $500 billion of imported goods from China.
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Almost all imported goods—food, machinery, energy, and even gasoline—cost more on Puerto Rico than they do elsewhere.
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Trade: Two decades ago, the U.S. was the primary source of imported goods in virtually all of Latin America.
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Energy prices and the prices of non-energy imported goods were expected to begin steadily rising later this year.
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A weaker renminbi makes Chinese exports more competitive in foreign markets, while making imported goods more expensive within China.
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That special status gives countries certain trade advantages, including lower tariffs on imported goods, according to the US government.
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The official added this could be imposed on top of any tariffs further raising the costs of imported goods.
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If enacted, a border adjustment tax would have effectively imposed significant levies on billions of dollars of imported goods.
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But in two months, if she can't access imported goods from China, she's going to have to get creative.
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The group had been beaten down, as higher tariffs would stoke rising costs for the imported goods they sell.
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Earlier in the summer, both countries applied tariffs on $50 billion worth of imported goods from the other country.
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It was exacerbated by Mr. Trump's $278 trillion tax cut, which left Americans more money to buy imported goods.
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He added that a 26% tariff would "shortly" be imposed on an additional $26.5 billion of imported goods from China.
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Other cost of living factors in Hong Kong also contributed, such as the high price of imported goods and clothing.
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If a retailer, like Gap, has to pay import taxes, it will be less incentivized to buy those imported goods.
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Prices rise on imported goods from China and Mexico, which has the effect of reducing spending power for American consumers.
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U.S. President Donald Trump's administration raised tariffs on $200 billion worth of imported goods from China to 25% from 10%.
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Meanwhile, firms would no longer be able to knock off the cost of imported goods when adding up their profits.
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In terms of imported goods, the U.S. bought mostly autos from the EU as well as pharmaceutical and medical goods.
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Imported goods are running out and economists say that by some measures inflation is now at 50 percent a month.
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But the poorest 10% of consumers would lose 63% of their spending power, because they buy relatively more imported goods.
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Instead, changes in import tariffs mean consumers should expect to pay more for imported goods ranging from sneakers to cars.
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Trump said last Friday he was ready to impose tariffs on all $500 billion worth of imported goods from China.
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First, ordinary citizens who search for bargains tend to spend a relatively high percentage of their incomes on imported goods.
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He has threatened to slap tariffs on imported goods to protect American jobs and raise taxes on hedge-fund managers.
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China tariffs: The Hill: Beijing threatens tariffs on $60 billion of U.S. imported goods as trade tensions continue without resolution.
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Last year, the U.S. government collected more than $33 billion in taxes on imported goods in the form of tariffs.
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Imported goods are running out and economists say that, by some measures, inflation is now at 50 percent a month.
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But the tax, as in other nations with that tax system, applies to Mexico's domestic as well as imported goods.
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Even when Americans buy imported goods, we are indirectly supporting those "Made in America" products that appeal to global consumers.
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S. consumers' access to less expensive imported goods will be unaffected, but incremental jobs will be created by incremental production.
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EEF also pointed to rising price pressures in factories as the weak pound pushed up the cost of imported goods.
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It set off enormous protests from Koreans in 2008 over concerns about the safety of imported goods, such as beef.
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Trump has placed tariffs — taxes on imported goods — on roughly $250 billion worth of Chinese products since coming into office.
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Lentz said he was pleased that the Trump administration's tax plan did not include a border tax on imported goods.
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Today, however, exchange rates adjust, meaning it's unclear that a tariff really would increase the real price of imported goods.
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Last quarter's drop was likely due to fallout from President Trump's trade war with China, our biggest source of imported goods.
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A strong yen also complicates the Bank of Japan's attempts to encourage inflation because it reduces the cost of imported goods.
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In the meantime, China has developed a big craving for imported goods as middle-class consumers now demand higher-quality products.
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Poor households, which devote a greater proportion of their spending to imported goods, look most vulnerable to a spike in prices.
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That has exacerbated tensions between suppliers and retailers, with both sides battling for profits as margins on imported goods are hit.
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Currently, the KRG independently imposes and collects custom tariffs on imported goods in border areas it controls, which Baghdad considers illegal.
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Earlier this year, Ryan pushed for including a border-adjustment tax, which would levy taxes on imported goods, to raise revenue.
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This can boost the economy in the short-term, and a booming economy means Americans buy more goods, including imported goods.
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Businesses fear a no-deal Brexit would lead to major disruption at British ports, pushing up the cost of imported goods.
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Smaller US companies benefit when the dollar is stronger since it makes imported goods more expensive than those made in America.
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But in 1949, when communist leader Mao Zedong took over, Coke, along with other imported goods from the West, was banned.
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Braun faced attacks during his GOP primary bid for selling imported goods even as he criticized outsourcing in his campaign ads.
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But any stimulus to British exports from a devalued currency is likely to be offset by higher prices for imported goods.
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The currency crash has led to a sharp rise in unemployment and spiraling inflation because of the cost of imported goods.
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A coalition rallying opposing a proposed U.S. border tax on imported goods is planning to target lawmakers during the Congressional recess.
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The store carries a wide range of imported goods, including teas, beans, biscuits and crisps, along with an assortment of sweets.
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Trump said in a CNBC interview he was ready to impose tariffs on all $500 billion of imported goods from China.
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Falling currencies make imported goods more expensive in those countries, forcing poor people to pay more for food, fuel and transportation.
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Those price increases are likely to take a toll on airlines, department stores, manufacturers and other businesses that sell imported goods.
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That would cause the prices of imported goods to spike, fuel inflation inside Turkey and undermine popular support for Mr. Erdogan.
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Economists generally agree that higher tariffs reduce competitiveness and drive up prices of imported goods, including parts supplied to American manufacturers.
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Trump said in a CNBC interview he was ready to put tariffs on all $500 billion of imported goods from China.
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Imported goods benefit the vast majority of Americans by spurring more competition to satisfy consumers with better products at lower prices.
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That's despite President Donald Trump's efforts to revive American manufacturing and reduce dependence on imported goods, including steel and other materials.
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It can also enter the U.S. via imported goods from countries that also use PFOA, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
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Inflation surged to almost 25% that year as steep falls in the local currency pushed up the price of imported goods.
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The result has helped British exporters, but has also pushed up inflation and squeezed real wages as imported goods became more expensive.
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Rising incomes also stimulated a big increase in local consumption, some of which was in turn spent on imported goods and services.
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GATT/WTO members must also treat imported goods and services no less favorably than domestically produced items once they have cleared customs.
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To protect "energy intensive and trade exposed" (EITE) industries, Inslee proposes a "carbon duty," effectively a carbon border tax on imported goods.
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Consumer spending is slowing down and the trade war isn't helping: Americans spent 2.5% less on imported goods in the first quarter.
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The U.S.-China trade war has seen both countries slap new duties on billions of dollars' worth of each other's imported goods.
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A stronger yen hurts Japanese exporters by making their goods more expensive, while also weighing on inflation by making imported goods cheaper.
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That surprised many, since the depreciation of the pound following the vote in June on Brexit should make imported goods more expensive.
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Tariffs are taxes, which create a wedge between the price paid by buyers of imported goods and the one foreign sellers get.
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A plan being weighed by House Republicans would exempt export revenues from taxation but impose a 20 percent tax on imported goods.
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Earlier this year, President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on imported goods from around the world, including China, the European Union and Mexico.
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In the latest trade salvo, Trump said he was ready to impose tariffs on all $73.143 billion of imported goods from China.
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Taxes on imported goods raise prices for businesses and consumers, pushing up the inflation rate, while also dampening consumption and economic growth.
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Worse still, tariffs would eviscerate the purchasing power of American wages, as imported goods, from clothes to dishwashers, would become more expensive.
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WHAT ARE YOU HOPING TO ACCOMPLISH WITH CHINA, WITH THE LOOMING THREAT OF ANOTHER $003 BILLION IN TARIFFS ON CHINESE IMPORTED GOODS?
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Cash is desperately needed by Venezuela for spending on imported goods, payments on overdue sovereign bonds and to keep the government afloat.
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There are limited amounts of imported goods, and they're very expensive, so the people in the region depend on hunting and fishing.
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Kenya imported goods worth 370.8 billion shillings ($3.67 billion) from China last year while exporting just 11.32 billion shillings of goods there.
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There was logic to policing the issue locally, since three-quarters of all imported goods entered the country through New York Harbor.
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Obviously, the Smoot-Hawley tariffs of 1930 were a disaster, placing very high duties (about 20% higher) on some 20,000 imported goods.
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Pricier imported goods could also cut the margins for both businesses depending on European raw materials; and businesses depending on EU consumers.
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Officials also griped about some of Trump's policies, particularly his aggressive implementation of tariffs on billions of dollars' worth of imported goods.
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That could change if consumers are hit with higher prices on a longer list of Chinese imported goods targeted with higher tariffs.
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The British pound has surrendered 17 percent of its value against the dollar since the referendum, raising the cost of imported goods.
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The single currency has gained more than 14 percent this year, dampening the price of imported goods and helping to keep inflation subdued.
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But the pound's fall has left suppliers and retailers struggling to maintain profits because of the increase in the cost of imported goods.
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If the results of the investigation show an impact, it could lead to more tariffs on imported goods, an administration official told CNN.
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That tax is part of a proposed corporate tax overhaul and would tax imported goods at the border at a proposed 20 percent.
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The stronger dollar also makes imports cheaper, and to some extent U.S. consumers and businesses will substitute imported goods for domestically produced ones.
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While a weaker pound would make U.K. exports cheaper, the other effect is that imported goods and services would be much more expensive.
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Although tourism may benefit from the weak pound, small businesses like ours will suffer with having to pay higher prices for imported goods.
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An improvement in productivity is curbing labor costs for companies and the dollar strength last year is weighing on prices of imported goods.
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Most independent economic analysts, however, say annual inflation has already hit double digit figures following an increase in prices, especially of imported goods.
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The prices of many imported goods have almost doubled, suggesting that they reflect the black market exchange rate rather than the official rate.
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As a result, around half the country live in poverty while the more affluent citizens pay inflated prices for imported goods and security.
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Many imported goods were banned, scarcity was rife, black markets thrived, businesses were failing and soldiers stalked markets to enforce government-determined prices.
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The index was up 0.2 percent in January from a year earlier, suggesting that recent yen declines are pushing up imported goods prices.
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U.S. President Donald Trump said in a CNBC interview he was ready to put tariffs on $500 billion of imported goods from China.
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"This is a good chance for local producers to penetrate our own domestic market that is usually filled with imported goods," Indrawati said.
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The falling currency has lifted the prices of Britain's imported goods, squeezing households with inflation now running at a 3 percent annual rate.
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The resulting boost to household consumption would bring down China's trade surplus because Chinese families would have more to spend on imported goods.
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But Turkey has long been dependent on imported goods and cash borrowed in foreign currency, making the drop in the lira especially painful.
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But a weaker dollar makes imported goods more expensive for U.S. consumers and hurts companies that rely on foreign goods, such as retailers.
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Trade-weighted euro is close to its highest since September 103, pushing down on the price of imported goods and in turn inflation.
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While Cafta has failed to prevent an onslaught of Chinese imported goods, Mexico remains a crucial element of the company Mr. Ross built.
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A company that imported goods worth $80 from abroad and them sold them domestically for $100 would pay tax on the full $100.
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It could increase the costs of imported goods that the poor spend a disproportionate portion of their income on, like clothing and gasoline.
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Unfortunately, the biggest risk to launching a trade war against the People's Republic of China comes from the most obscure of imported goods.
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Mr. Trump has repeatedly argued that the cost of the tariffs, which are taxes on imported goods, is being absorbed by Chinese exporters.
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Republicans need a way to pay for tax cuts, and they've already rejected a plan to tax imported goods at the U.S. border.
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The Trump administration is considering postponing tariff payments on some imported goods for 90 days as part of its response to a faltering economy WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is considering postponing tariff payments on some imported goods for 90 days, according to people familiar with the matter, as it looks to ease the burden on businesses hurt by the pandemic.
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The Trump administration is considering postponing tariff payments on some imported goods for 90 days as part of its response to a faltering economy WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is considering postponing tariff payments on some imported goods for 90 days, according to people familiar with the matter, as it looks to ease the burden on businesses hurt by the pandemic.
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A lower currency tends to push up prices of imported goods, but the BoE has said it would look at this while deciding policy.
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The problem is that the plan relies on the dollar rising sharply — 25 percent — so that the cost of imported goods doesn't noticeably rise.
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They expect the House proposal to include "border adjustment," or a tax on imported goods, as well as limitations on what interest corporations deduct.
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But while America levies the corporate tax on exporters' profits, it imposes no VAT on imported goods (except for state and local sales taxes).
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"The government has decided to impose a tax of 100 percent on imported goods coming from Serbia and Bosnia," Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj said.
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Potts said this set-up meant it was protected if the government imposed tariffs on some imported goods in a no-deal Brexit scenario.
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The idea is that by taxing imported goods, American businesses will be forced to manufacture more items here and boost jobs and tax revenues.
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Trump took up the mantle on Friday, reiterating his protectionist philosophy and threatening to slap a 45 percent tariff on imported goods from China.
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The World Bank's figures suggest that delays in ports add roughly 10% to the cost of imported goods, more in many cases than tariffs.
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The worry is that U.S. tariffs levied on imported goods from China, Europe and elsewhere will disrupt global supply chains and stymie economic growth.
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Last year, Thailand exported $30.3 billion of goods to Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines, and imported goods worth $24.8 billion from these three countries.
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They disrupt the operations of many U.S. business that rely on imported goods as inputs for their production, and they raise prices for consumers.
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On top of the rise in gas and electricity prices, the carbon tax bill would also create a border adjustment tax on imported goods.
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In his campaign Trump, a political novice, has vowed to clamp down on immigration, rethink trade relations and slap high tariffs on imported goods.
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The result is a policy that is taxing billions of dollars' worth of imported goods without an adequate check and balance by the Congress.
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Consumers pay the same for many imported goods, U.S. producers enjoy more competitive margins, and the U.S. Treasury gains extra income from tariff revenues.
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That's because more Chinese consumers now have a preference for buying imported goods, Richard Liu, founder and CEO of JD.com, told CNBC's Eunice Yoon.
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Still, many analysts said Beijing and Washington were likely to come to an agreement that could avoid the levying of tariffs on imported goods.
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President Trump said he was ready to impose tariffs on all $500 billion of imported goods from China, unnerving financial markets in premarket trading.
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In response, RTR explains that, according to the CDC, there is currently no evidence suggesting that COVID-19 can be transmitted via imported goods.
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Ryan has been pushing a plan that includes a border adjustment tax, or BAT, that would levy a 20 percent tax on imported goods.
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China and other countries are considering retaliatory and even punitive measures in response to President Trump's imposition of billions in tariffs on imported goods.
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As he wages trade wars, he also pushes for increased public spending and domestic investment, which could lead to greater consumption of imported goods.
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The trade war, in which the United States and China placed tariffs on specific imported goods, caused a significant slump in manufacturing last year.
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The government also announced measures to take some pressure off its currency, including imposing tariffs on some imported goods that can be locally made.
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Our TV critic Mike Hale has been keeping tabs, and he's impressed with the variety of imported goods that Netflix is providing these days.
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From there, inflationary pressures kick in as the added cost to imported goods push up consumer prices, slow down consumption and derail economic momentum.
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Those who object to the border-adjustment proposal — chiefly retailers who sell imported goods — claim that there will be exorbitant price increases for consumers.
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In contrast, they pay no GST on goods purchased from overseas suppliers if the value of the imported goods is below S$400 ($302.40).
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Under those rates, tariffs on imported goods are only 2.7 percent for the United States, 4.6 percent for Mexico, and 2.4 percent for Canada.
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From 2000 to 2015, Mexican-imported goods increased by nearly 120 percent and, from 1990 to 2015, they rose about 882 percent, Census data showed.
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This is because the firms often have to buy U.S. currency at a premium on the black market to purchase the imported goods they sell.
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Britain's vote to leave the European Union last June triggered a slide in the value of the pound, pushing up the price of imported goods.
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The federation estimates that access to imported goods through free-trade agreements boosts the purchasing power of the average American family by $18,000 a year.
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Sam's Club in China, also owned by Walmart, will open a flagship section on JD.com, and both companies will broaden the range of imported goods.
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The dollar's 21.7 percent appreciation against the currencies of the United States' main trading partners over the last 20 months has made imported goods cheaper.
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As the dollar gets weaker, imported goods and services get more expensive, since it takes more dollars to buy that €10 bottle of French wine.
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The impost was indirect because nobody knew in which state the imported goods would settle nor which state should get credit for paying the tax.
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Yet now, as the pound drops and prices of imported goods rise, some of these voters are experiencing a new sentiment — a so-called Regrexit.
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Border adjustabililty would exempt U.S. export sales from corporate income tax but impose it on imported goods including crude oil used by U.S. oil refineries.
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"For the next five years, or 10 years, I'm sure in the larger cities, almost half the shopping will come from imported goods," Liu said.
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The rate hikes have contributed to a strengthening of the dollar in recent months, which allows Americans to more easily buy imported goods and services.
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Russia has been trying reduce its dependence on imported goods and technology, a drive that has gathered speed since Russia was hit by Western sanctions.
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Charles and David Koch are opposing President Trump's plan to impose tariffs on imported goods, exposing a rift between Republican donors and the party's base.
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Cost-of-living index: 79.06Local purchasing power: 81.07According to the Borgen Project, it is cheaper to buy local items in Italy rather than imported goods.
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And, in China this week, those firms were working to remove regulations on imported goods and increase their presence in the world's second-largest economy.
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Turkey has threatened to close its border crossing into Kurdistan, which relies on imported goods and food from Turkey and, to a lesser extent, Iran.
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A carbon border mechanism would see the EU impose costs on imports from other countries based on the carbon emissions associated with the imported goods.
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He also added, erroneously, that the money for the aid would come from tariffs his administration has slapped on billions of dollars of imported goods.
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Clearly, accelerating prices of imported goods from the EU and China — a trillion dollar business — will be a big trade-induced shock to America's inflation.
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Failure to properly list country of origin on imported goods could result in a fine up to $500,000, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
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With the conflict escalating, Mr. Trump appeared to embrace a proposal by House Republicans that would impose a 20 percent tax on all imported goods.
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U.K. consumers have been opting for discounters since the Brexit vote last year, which caused a major depreciation in sterling and made imported goods higher.
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Many businesses are being threatened with policies that would hurt their bottom lines — especially, but not only, tariffs on imported goods crucial to their operations.
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To respond, Trump is floating the imposition of $2.4 billion in tariffs on French imported goods, including wine, and Paris is vowing to strike back.
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With many tariffs on American products still in place, China needs to keep trading with other nations to satisfy its people's demands for imported goods.
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ImpCo, by contrast, would still be accountable for all its revenue, but also would not be allowed to deduct the $800 it spends on imported goods.
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Recently, British supermarket chains battled with Unilever after the consumer goods giant asked them to raise food prices to offset the higher costs of imported goods.
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A strengthening single currency hinders Draghi's bid to push inflation back towards his close-to-2 percent target by pushing down the price of imported goods.
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The destination-based tax would mean that companies would not deduct the costs of imported goods, and would not include export revenue in their tax base.
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China and the U.S. have been engaged in a tense sparring match over trade, with both countries hitting each other's economies with levies on imported goods.
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Retailers and other businesses that sell imported goods are not keen on the idea, and some lawmakers have expressed concern about its impact on U.S. consumers.
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America has free-trade agreements with 20 other states, which together represent a third of the country's imported goods and nearly half of its exported goods.
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Because tariffs would raise prices for American businesses and consumers that buy imported goods, "you're hurting yourself if you follow through with it," Mr. Mankiw said.
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The government has in recent months devalued the rupee, imposed tariffs on imported goods and sought to boost exports to reduce growing balance of payments pressures.
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Strength in the euro not only helps many firms reduce costs of imported goods but historically it has lifted returns for offshore investors, such as Kennedy.
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The Trump administration's 73 percent import tariff on $50 billion of Chinese imported goods, and another 10 percent on $200 billion of imports, has added up.
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The Brexit vote devastated the British currency, whose fall is leading to higher prices for imported goods and greater difficulty for Brits themselves to travel abroad.
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Consumers already are suffering as retailers hike prices to recover the increased cost of the imported goods they sell due to tariffs levied on those goods.
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Freeports, also sometimes known as free trade zones, are areas where imported goods can be held or processed free of customs duties before being exported again.
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Bond prices rose even more and plunged yields after President Donald Trump on Thursday announced plans to impose tariffs on nearly all imported goods from China.
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"We have low or negative inflation due to oil prices that are falling very sharply and due to imported goods that have become cheaper," Jordan said.
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When combined with a weak rand currency that makes imported goods more expensive this has meant maize products, bread, lamb, beef have all got more expensive.
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In its new report, the committee says that imported goods from Xinjiang potentially made using forced labor is in violation of both US and international laws.
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It is one of the biggest Chinese e-commerce sites focused on selling imported goods in the country, alongside Alibaba's Tmall Global and JD.com's JD Worldwide.
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Tariffs drive up the cost of goods coming into the US, forcing businesses to pay more for imported goods or buy more expensive domestically produced goods.
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Mr. Trump has imposed tariffs levied on steel and aluminum from countries including Japan, Mexico and Canada, and additional tariffs on other imported goods from China.
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The trade war with the United States could also lead to higher prices for Chinese consumers and companies with tariffs raising the cost of imported goods.
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The trade war with the United States could also lead to higher prices for Chinese consumers and companies as tariffs raise the cost of imported goods.
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That has included steep tariffs on imported goods, which President Trump has wielded as a cudgel to force companies to relocate manufacturing to the United States.
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President Donald Trump's aggressive trade policies, including tariffs on several billions of dollars in imported goods, have prompted many of his fellow Republicans to speak out.
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On Thursday night, Trump hit back by asking his administration to consider an additional $100 billion in tariffs against $100 billion in imported goods from China.
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President Donald Trump has gradually initiated trade tariffs on a variety of imported goods, the latest of which is a tariff on steel and aluminum imports.
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To be clear, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said there is currently no evidence the virus can be transmitted through imported goods from China.
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But if America's net exports grow because new Trump-imposed taxes cause the price of imported goods to surge, then the economy is going to shrink.
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The way a tariff works is that it's basically like a sales tax, except instead of being paid on all goods, it's paid only on imported goods.
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It is another consequence from Brexit; as the British currency falls against the euro, U.K. retailers are under pressure as the cost of imported goods go up.
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However, companies would not be able to deduct the cost of imports — a feature known as "border adjustment" that effectively imposes a tax on those imported goods.
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The intent of a tariff, or a tax placed on imported goods, is to benefit domestic companies by making their product more affordable than a foreign alternative.
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Inflation has risen over the past year due to a weak peso and a lengthy drought that has pushed up the price of foodstuffs and imported goods.
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That caused pain for ordinary Russians, whose savings in dollar terms were wiped out and for whom the price of imported goods in the shops shot up.
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Tough talk on tariffs on imported goods by U.S. President Donald Trump, and potential retaliation by China and other countries, may also push up consumer prices further.
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Russia has been trying to reduce its dependence on imported goods and technology, a drive that gathered speed after Moscow was hit by Western sanctions in 2014.
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Across the globe in Russia, the government has started to eliminate tariffs on electronic components and simultaneously created significant barriers to using imported goods in government projects.
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In other words, the United States cannot easily substitute what it imports from China with either locally made or imported goods from countries not subject to tariffs.
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The strong yen is pushing down imported goods prices, which may help consumption but heightens challenges for the BOJ to accelerate inflation to its 2 percent target.
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Putin has said that Russia should reduce its dependence on imported goods and technology, a drive that has gathered pace since Russia was hit by Western sanctions.
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In the House, Republican leaders say any tax reform bill needs to include what they call "border adjustment" and critics call a new levy on imported goods.
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The president's comments on Twitter as well as sudden decisions to impose new tariffs on imported goods are "quite unconventional" and difficult to understand by European policymakers.
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Tariffs on one country's exports to America largely re-allocate the deficit between America and country X to country Y, while likely raising prices of imported goods.
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This could temper the anticipated increases in the prices of some imported goods as a result of trade tensions between the United States and other major economies.
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But there are also losers that accompany a stronger dollar, as Europeans are forced to pay more for imported goods and services as the exchange rate moves.
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If sustained, the rise will lower prices for many imported goods that have already been depressed by globalization and the ascent of industrial giants such as China.
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The National Retail Federation estimates that access to imported goods through free trade agreements boosts the purchasing power of the average American family by $18,000 a year.
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They say the U.S. dollar would strengthen after the plan was enacted, so it would be cheaper for companies to buy imported goods, offsetting the additional tax.
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But a customs agent in Jiangsu province said daigou were still operating to meet massive demand for imported goods, despite the practice being technically illegal in China.
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It also claims the support falls into the WTO's most severe category, that of "prohibited" subsidies, because it depends on the use of domestic over imported goods.
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To do that, Trump has turned to tariffs — taxes on imported goods, in this case from China — that make them more expensive for American consumers to buy.
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But the outcome is far different than President Trump's combative approach and dealings in recent months with America's closest allies by slapping tariffs on various imported goods.
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"We buy imported goods because we feel they are safer to eat," said Mike Zheng, 30, who was browsing the aisles with his 2-year-old son.
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In order to enact the proposed reforms, the country will have to focus on austerity measures like a state hiring freeze and higher taxes on imported goods.
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Its new analysis, of the distributional effects of Mr. Trump's imposed and threatened tariffs, finds widespread harm to Americans, who would pay higher prices on imported goods.
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The change came when, without warning, airports this year started instead levying the standard rate for imported goods, 0.75 percent of the object's value, on all art.
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Some people have raised concerns that they might be able to contract the coronavirus from imported goods packed by people in other countries who might be sick.
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These days he works in the main imported-goods store, which sells more than 250 kinds of French wines and numerous types of pâté de foie gras.
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Section 337 of the Tariff Act provides the ITC with the authority to exclude imported goods that infringe on the intellectual property rights of U.S. patent holders.
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A centerpiece of Ryan's effort is a controversial border-adjustment tax that would impose a tax on imported goods while exempting products manufactured in the United States.
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Pomerleau also disputed claims that border adjustments would hurt retailers, saying that the U.S. dollar would get stronger, making it cheaper for businesses to buy imported goods.
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Mr. Trump's threats to impose punitive taxes on imported goods are a particular worry for Germany, whose economy is built around exports of automobiles and industrial machinery.
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That leaves currency intervention to weaken the currency in the hope of pushing inflation towards the Riksbank's target by raising the cost of imported goods and services.
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This BAT would impose a 20 percent consumer tax on imported goods like food, gas, medicine and clothing to pay for a significant corporate tax rate reduction.
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The U.S. and China are in the middle of a bitter trade dispute, with both nations slapping tariffs on billions of dollars worth of each others' imported goods.
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Some 960 workers employed by five companies in Indiana are losing their jobs because their U.S. employers are not able to compete with cheaper imported goods, filings show.
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Yet prices for imported goods would have soared as a result, the market's way of curtailing Venezuelan demand for products it no longer had the dollars to afford.
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Some retailers could also be under pressure as elevated tariffs would stoke rising costs for the imported goods they sell, according to Michael Lasser, equity analyst at UBS.
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U.S. President Donald Trump's threat to impose tariffs on all $500 billion of imported goods from China rattled emerging markets on Monday, but China's practical response improved sentiment.
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But the decision to impose tariffs on China has led to retaliatory measures from Beijing, which has also increased the price of U.S. imported goods for Chinese consumers.
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The weaker peso increased the cost of imported goods, prodding what was one of the world's highest inflation rates even higher in the first part of this year.
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The trade deficit, fuelled by a rise in the consumption of imported goods, widened by more than 1.7433 percent on the year in January to 1.7423 billion euros.
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While companies like Best Buy and Target support changes to the tax code, they urged Trump to oppose a proposal for a new border tax on imported goods.
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"The Border Adjustment Tax … slaps outrageous taxes on imported goods — like clothing, food, medicine, and gasoline — products Americans rely on every day," the coalition says on its website.
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Even the hardiest free-trade advocates recognize that opening markets indeed creates losers in the U.S.; but they create far more winners: Consumers can purchase cheaper imported goods.
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Regarding potential imposition of a "border adjustment tax" on goods imported from Mexico, Massaro pointed out that it may affect all imported goods, not just those from Mexico.
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China is easily the largest buyer of Australian exports, valued at $72 billion ($93 billion AUD) in 2016, as well as the biggest source of Australia's imported goods.
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The most prominent trade war of the 22002th century was ignited by the Smoot-Hawley Tariff act of 230, which imposed steep tariffs on roughly 22,22003 imported goods.
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He wants to impose tariffs on imported goods, cut taxes for corporations and top earners, while also not reducing spending on entitlement programs like Medicare and Social Security.
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The practical effect would be to undercut some farmers, for example, and add to the costs of some imported goods — hundreds of dollars for some popular imported cars.
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The North's state-run KCNA news agency reported on March 13 that as part of "super strong prevention measures" all imported goods were being quarantined for 10 days.
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The Japanese automaker's mobilization of its army of dealers underscores the growing alarm among some of the world's largest companies that sell imported goods in the United States.
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Other data on Thursday showed a rise in the prices of imported goods in February amid U.S. dollar weakness, bolstering expectations that inflation will pick up this year.
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"People imported goods to Yangon through my account," he said, adding that people from Myanmar who were working abroad also sent money back to their families through him.
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The United States has been keen to address trade imbalances and protect U.S. manufacturers against cheaper imported goods such as steel and autos, coming into the U.S. market.
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Its chairman, Major General Shokry Al-Qamary, said sales of kitchen utensils were booming since Egypt devalued its currency in 2016, pushing up the price of imported goods.
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Trump has advocated slapping harsh tariffs on imported goods in order to fight back against what he views as unfair trade practices, an idea he reiterated on Tuesday.
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The so-called "border-adjusted" corporate tax is backed by several economists on the left and the right—and not because they share Mr Trump's suspicion of imported goods.
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The plan being weighed by House Republicans would exempt export revenues from taxation but impose a 20 percent tax on imported goods, a significant change from current U.S. policy.
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Signed by the President, this Act gives U.S. Customs and Border Protection broad authority to prevent entry of imported goods that are suspected to be made with forced labor.
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In recent years, a rising euro — which holds down the price of imported goods and in turn inflation — has been met with lower expectations for long-term price growth.
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The main hiccup for China's second-largest retailer is the trade war between the U.S. and China — a potential for inflation of shipping costs and levies on imported goods.
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After failing to reach a deal with China on trade conditions, the US finalized a new round of tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese imported goods on Monday.
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Video The imposition of punishing tariffs on imported goods has been a favored tactic by Trump, but it has prompted U.S. partners to retaliate, creating risks for the economy.
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Besides a shrinking share in exports, there has also been rising domestic demand for imported goods and outbound tourism, which has exacerbated the narrowing surplus, according to the report.
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Faced with Trump's "America First" policy and threats to impose tariffs on imported goods, the captains of industry will stress how many U.S. jobs are tied to "Deutschland AG".
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As companies like Target and Wal-Mart go head-to-head on value, a House bill proposing a tax on imported goods threatens to undermine any progress they make.
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But retailers and other businesses that rely on imported goods say such a border tax could force them to raise prices dramatically, with American consumers taking the financial hit.
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The Trump administration is pushing several countries on trade, including China, where it just announced tariffs on $50 billion worth of imported goods, and Canada, the EU and Mexico.
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Dozens of items on the administration's list of tariffs on imported goods are materials that go into pet-care products, which directly leads to higher costs for pet owners.
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Many distributors and manufacturers have already notified pet-industry retailers of a 2628 percent price increase across the board, corresponding with the current 28503 percent tariff on imported goods.
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Trump, in the CNBC interview on Friday, said he was ready to impose tariffs on all $500 billion of imported goods from China, potentially further escalating a trade clash.
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Retail stocks have taken a beating because fewer people are going to offline stores and and investors are predicting that tax reform will hurt those who sell imported goods.
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In an appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman in 2012, Trump criticized imported goods until Letterman showed Trump brand shirts and ties made in Bangladesh and China.
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Critics say the planned 20 percent tax on imports could be passed along in higher prices to consumers, including manufacturers that rely on imported goods to make their products.
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The U.S. foreign trade numbers will get worse for the rest of this year, because they will be reflecting rising sales of imported goods during the main retailing season.
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TRUMP TARIFFS: U.S industry groups, lawmakers and even some government officials are reviving their previous request to U.S. President Donald Trump: cut tariffs on Chinese and other imported goods.
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" CBP said on Friday it was providing some importers extra days to pay duties, taxes and fees on imported goods "due to the severity of the novel coronavirus disease.
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But the deficit can also fall because the pace of the American economy is slowing, making consumers less likely to buy imported goods and businesses less likely to invest.
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About $215 billion worth of goods came into the United States from China in 2018, making the country the largest supplier of imported goods, the U.S. Trade Representative said.
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Congress' disagreement over the border-adjustment tax, which would place a value-added tax on imported goods in order to fund the tax cuts, also stymied tax reform talks.
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Where the White House will come down on several main points, like a so-called border adjustment tax on imported goods that is favored by House Republicans, remains uncertain.
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Putin, in power since 2000, wants Russia to reduce its dependence on imported goods and technology, a drive that has gathered pace since Russia was hit by Western sanctions.
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The concept of taxing imports while letting exports go tax-free has divided American industries and drawn a fierce response from lobbyists of companies that rely on imported goods.
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President Trump has argued that the government needs to take steps to protect American companies and jobs in the United States, including potentially implementing higher taxes on imported goods.
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Mr. Trump had insisted Mexico would pay for its construction, and it appeared that he would embrace a proposal to impose a 20 percent tax on all imported goods.
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Imports are being driven by strong domestic demand as well as the strong dollar, which is making the prices of imported goods cheaper, likely offsetting the impact of tariffs.
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The United States had an average tariff rate of 3.4 percent on imported goods in 2016, compared with 13.5 percent for India, according to the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
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On Monday, the Trump administration announced tariffs on about $50 billion worth of imported goods from China, aiming to punish the country for alleged violations of American intellectual property.
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Much of the company's success can be attributed to billions of dollars worth of sales of imported goods, from appliances to electronics to apparel to groceries — many of them American.
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But on Tuesday, news of proposed US tariffs on $4 billion worth of imported goods from the European Union, along with worries about global growth, put a damper on things.
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China is a key market for luxury goods makers, with Chinese people accounting for a third of all global spending, although a weaker yuan will make imported goods more expensive.
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Yet that same vindictiveness—in the form of slapping companies that outsource American jobs with a tariff on imported goods—is what drew many to Trump in the first place.
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Aside from locally-produced staples such as maize meal and bread, prices of imported goods on Harare supermarket shelves have shot up 30-150 percent in the last two months.
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The government said earlier Thursday its advance figure showed imported goods exceeded goods exported by $63.3 billion last month, compared with a goods trade deficit of $60.59 billion in May.
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Theoretically, the higher price of imported goods will incentivize companies to manufacture more products in the United States, and there have been scattered reports that tariffs will have that effect.
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In June 2017, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates implemented a land, sea and air blockade on the gas exporting nation that restricted travel and imported goods.
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He persisted in his defense of tariffs on imported goods, but at the same time, he called for the complete elimination of all trade barriers among the G-2628 members.
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The peso is used to pay most wages and local goods, while the CUC is used in the tourism industry, foreign trade and upscale eateries and stores carrying imported goods.
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When it comes to the economy, President Trump's "America First" mantra has meant renegotiating existing trade treaties and imposing tariffs on imported goods such as aluminum, steel and solar panels.
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Shares of railroads and package shippers dropped on fears a trade war would slow the economy and reduce the amount of imported goods for them to ship around the country.
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The Trump administration has imposed tariffs on a range of imported goods, including steel and aluminum, to protect domestic industries from what it says is unfair competition from foreign manufacturers.
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The VDMA engineering association on Tuesday said the retaliatory tariffs on imported goods imposed by the United States and China would contribute to a 2% decline in production this year.
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Trump said his administration is going to lean hard on companies that consider outsourcing, and that ones moving jobs overseas will face "consequences," hinting at huge tariffs on imported goods.
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Trump has tried to bring down deficits by imposing tariffs on imported goods, but he doesn't seem to understand that tariffs are really taxes on US importers, not foreign governments.
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A growing body of research has concluded that a surge of imported goods produced in low-wage countries — especially China — has indeed eliminated millions of American jobs in recent decades.
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A growing body of research has concluded that a surge of imported goods produced in low-wage countries — especially China — has indeed eliminated millions of American jobs in recent decades.
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Inflation at the factory gate, however, remains supported by sustained increases in the cost of services as well as a softening dollar, which is lifting prices of some imported goods.
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He cited an increased consumption of imported goods and wrong allocation of funds by the municipalities as two of the biggest reasons for the "temporary illusion" that Portugal is experiencing.
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Economists have long warned that Mr. Trump's tax cuts would ultimately exacerbate a trade deficit he has vowed to reduce, as Americans, flush with extra cash, bought more imported goods.
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" • "Economists have long warned that Mr. Trump's tax cuts would ultimately exacerbate a trade deficit he has vowed to reduce, as Americans, flush with extra cash, bought more imported goods.
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Trump tweeted Wednesday evening that he intends to move ahead with his threat to impose a 5% levy on all Mexican imported goods if no agreement is reached on immigration enforcement.
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Turkey's currency has lost around a quarter of its value since the middle of last year, causing havoc for retailers selling imported goods or paying rent pegged to the U.S. dollar.
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The yuan touched a 14-month high of 6.89 against the U.S. dollar CNY= on Monday after China proposed new tariffs on $60 billion of imported goods from the United States.
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Her trade proposals also included a "border carbon adjustment" tax that would be levied against imported goods that require "carbon-intensive" manufacturing processes, she wrote on the online publishing platform Medium.
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Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro said that by the end of its initial coin offering on March 20th, petro sales raked in $5 billion, and the funds are paying for imported goods.
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There were also questions about whether imported cars were eligible for tax breaks and scrappage schemes and whether imported goods were eligible for a Chinese fund for promoting energy saving products.
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The border adjustment tax, or "BAT", as proposed by the Trump White House, would be a new tax (a rate as high as 20 percent has been mentioned) on imported goods.
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But local third-party businesses always have imported goods into Iran by nonofficial channels, selling them at sky-high markups either in independent boutiques or in private sales behind closed doors.
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Under current law, commercial carriers, such as Federal Express and UPS, must provide U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the agency responsible for policing imported goods, advance electronic data about incoming deliveries.
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To put in perspective how small this increase is, the infamous Smoot-Hawley Tariff raised the average tariff on imported goods from 13.5 percent in 1929 to 19.8 percent in 1933.
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He decided the best way to do that is by imposing new tariffs on imported goods — however, this has upset many countries, including Europe and Canada, traditionally seen as U.S. allies.
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U.S. companies and consumers are bearing part of the cost of the U.S. tariffs on China by paying higher prices for goods, and many companies have increased prices of imported goods.
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When the forint was falling, some traders did not even rule out an emergency rate hike from the NBH because a weakening increases inflation by boosting the price of imported goods.
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Trump is single-handedly imposing hundreds of billions of dollars of tariffs -- that is, taxes -- on imported goods from key US allies and China, without any explicit or implicit Congressional backing.
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Gauges of public inflation expectations have risen sharply of late, reflecting the fall in the value of the pound as the Brexit crisis escalates which raises the price of imported goods.
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That is because the imported goods they sell actually make up a small share of their overall costs, while they spend heavily on attractive stores, American staff wages and marketing promotions.
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House Republicans proposed a "border adjustment tax" on imported goods to help pay for the GOP's tax overhaul, but the measure was removed after retailers and other business interests raised objections.
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However in the first 11 months of 2018, the US exported more than $8 billion worth of goods to Vietnam and imported goods worth $45 billion, according to US Census figures.
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A key provision in the proposal is a border adjustment carbon tax that would add a tariff to imported goods from countries that are not as ambitious in limiting climate change.
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So far this year, President Donald Trump has imposed new tariffs on Chinese solar panels, washing machines, steel and aluminum, as well as on other imported goods for intellectual property theft.
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For instance, a greater tax on imported goods would be good news for U.S. manufacturers that compete with foreign companies, but trouble for retailers that import much of their inventory from abroad.
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House Republican leaders want to adopt a new border adjustment tax, which would penalize companies that rely heavily on imported goods, to finance an across-the-board cut in corporate tax rates.
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Inflation of imported goods is running at over 100%, estimates Eddie Cross, an opposition MP. Shops are raising prices or offering discounts to those with dollars, such as tourists or foreign correspondents.
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The Jones Act or la ley de cabotaje regulating all imported goods to arrive through US ports on US ships, reveals now more than ever the economic strangulation suffered by a colony.
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Coronaviruses only last several hours on surfaces at most, which is why imported goods are not going to give you an illness, but an unclean phone, a keyboard, or a doorknob could.
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THE collapse in the value of the pound—down by nearly 313% against the dollar since the Brexit vote—will result in rising inflation as the cost of imported goods goes up.
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Corporations wanted to create in Mexico a low-wage haven where they could shift production, expecting us to happily buy the imported goods built with cheap Mexican labor—while exporting our jobs.
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Still, surveys show that most South Carolinians favor a tax on imported goods to protect domestic jobs and that the state's Republicans, even more than Democrats, are against the Pacific trade pact.
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Sanctions include asset freezes and travel restrictions against individuals, officials and businesses perceived to be involved in Crimea's annexation, as well as a ban on imported goods from Crimea and tourism services.
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UBS warned last month that certain retailers with high percentage of merchandise exposed to Chinese duties have "significant risk" as higher tariffs would stoke rising costs for the imported goods they sell.
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The plunge in the value of the pound to 30-year lows versus the U.S. dollar since the Brexit vote is another headache as it could mean higher prices for imported goods.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. cross-border tax could propel the dollar and raise the prices of imported goods and services, Federal Reserve Bank of New York President William Dudley said Tuesday.
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Republicans in Congress have proposed a border tax adjustment in which U.S. firms would pay a 20-percent tax on all imported goods and be exempt from paying taxes on export revenue.
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Trump threatened further tariffs on Chinese imports, and his administration followed through on Friday, when it raised tariffs to 25% from 10% on some $200 billion worth of imported goods from China.
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"It's early yet in the trade wars battle, and more inflation from higher-priced imported goods may still be on the way," said Chris Rupkey, chief economist at MUFG in New York.
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Combined with a rally in British government bonds (and consequently lower interest rates), the currency shift will mean a burst of inflation for British consumers as imported goods become sharply more expensive.
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Until now, GST has applied only to most goods sold in Australia and imported goods worth over A$1,000, making relatively low-cost imported items cheaper than their equivalents in local stores.
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The environment has worsened since 2014 when the rouble tumbled due to sanctions and a drop in oil prices, raising the cost of imported goods and turning Russian consumers into bargain hunters.
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Prices of imported goods and services into the United States fell 0.5 percent in January, resulting in the largest annual decline in nearly 2-1/2 years, according to the Labor Department.
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Trade barriers can come in the form of tariffs (taxes on imported goods), quotas (limits on the number of goods that can be imported) or strict regulations that shut out foreign sellers.
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Surprisingly, Britain's trade balance will move into a small surplus, thanks not to the dynamism of exporters but "because demand for imported goods plunges due to exchange-rate depreciation and reduced consumption".
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Still, trade is likely to remain a sore point between the United States and Brazil, whose steep tariffs on imported goods make it one of the most closed economies in the world.
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I head to a shop that I know sells imported goods and can only find a bar of my dad's favorite raw honey paleo-friendly chocolate, which I buy for him ($4.50).
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Among the risks: It could drive up consumer prices for all sorts of imported goods, from German cars to Mexican avocados, if the dollar does not rise as much as economists predict.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU ambassadors agreed on Wednesday draft tariff rates that the bloc will apply to quotas of imported goods after Britain leaves the European Union, the EU said in a statement.
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They will be able to use the money to buy imported goods from new state-owned shops, called Tiendas Moneda Libremente Convertible (or convertible-currency shops), where prices are given in dollars.
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Among its provisions is to allow American companies to deduct domestic wages from taxation, which makes it less costly to employ workers and helps them offset the higher price of imported goods.
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He has trained special wrath on China, imposing tariffs reaching 225 percent on some $50 billion worth of Chinese imported goods, and 10 percent on an additional $200 billion worth of products.
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In a CNBC interview on Thursday, Trump said a strong dollar put the United States at a disadvantage and he was ready to place tariffs on $500 billion of imported goods from China .
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Plenty of Republicans on Capitol Hill also oppose Trump's plans for punitive taxes on imported goods and his overall approach to free trade including plans to gut NAFTA and other existing trade deals.
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In fact, the resulting disruption to global supply-chains would badly hurt American firms, and higher prices on imported goods would squeeze American consumers, especially poorer households, which spend proportionately more on them.
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It said it was seeing signs of British companies increasingly hoarding imported goods that were indispensable for their production so they could avoid possible customs and delays or disruptions to their supply chains.
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As Vox's Matthew Yglesias has explained: The way a tariff works is that it's basically like a sales tax, except instead of being paid on all goods, it's paid only on imported goods.
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The pound's fall -- it is down 19 percent against the U.S. currency and about 16 percent against the euro -- has left suppliers and retailers battling for profits as imported goods become more expensive.
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The Australian Council for Superannuation Investors (ACSI), which advises pension funds on how to vote at shareholder meetings, said their reliance on imported goods meant Australian companies were particularly exposed to such risks.
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In a meeting with the New York Times editorial board, Trump floated the idea of a 45 percent tariff on imported goods from China, which he claims has kept its currency artificially weak.
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Food prices have slipped slightly the past two years but the government believes that by making it easier to import, prices of both imported goods and locally produced items will fall much more.
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Rather than reverse two decades of economic change, a protectionist agenda would slow both economic growth and, by making imported goods more expensive, crimp middle incomes—the opposite of what Mr Trump promises.
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Retailers have become the most vocal opponents to the proposal, saying a 20 percent tax on imported goods would cause prices to increase for consumers and erase any profits the companies currently make.
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Ouagadougou authorities are helping local producers promote their fruit juices, cooking oils, dried fruits and other products in the streets of Burkina Faso's capital, to help them compete with smartly packaged imported goods.
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After all, trying to eradicate a $375 billion annual deficit that has come about mostly because Americans consume more than they make and require cheap imported goods to bridge the gap seems unrealistic.
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He's all for free trade, but in the next sentence will force Apple to make their iPads and iPhones in the U.S. He's going to apply a 35 percent tariff to imported goods.
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CIPS said nearly a third of respondents had raised their prices because of the impact of Brexit, which caused the value of the pound to fall, pushing up the cost of imported goods.
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Here's another example: if the United States and other large economies really wanted to stop tax avoidance, they could make ending offshore tax havens a condition of selling imported goods in their markets.
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Like other packaged food makers, it has been squeezed by last year's drop in the British currency, which has raised the cost of imported goods or globally traded commodities priced in U.S. dollars.
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One of the key sticking points before talks broke down in May was whether the Trump administration would remove 25% tariffs it had imposed on $250 billion worth of imported goods from China.
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One of the key sticking points before talks broke down in May was whether the Trump administration would remove 25% tariffs it had imposed on $250 billion worth of imported goods from China.
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Trump told CNBC on Friday he was ready to impose tariffs on all $500 billion of imported goods from China, threatening to escalate a clash over trade policy that has unnerved financial markets.
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Most of the artisans are renowned for their attention to detail and the use of local labor in collaboration with imported goods to create their pieces, and a lot are eco-conscious too.
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The pound's fall — it is down 19 percent against the U.S. currency and about 16 percent against the euro — has left suppliers and retailers battling for profits as imported goods become more expensive.
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RILA, for example, is fighting a prized component of the House Republicans' tax plan that would place a tariff on imported goods — including pouring resources into a lobbying and advertising campaign against it.
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There is no evidence so far that the coronavirus is transmitted through imported goods, said Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, in a briefing with reporters.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will face a very difficult choice on whether to impose tariffs on imported goods if it leaves the European Union without a deal, business minister Greg Clark said on Wednesday.
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Trump's latest round of tariffs on Chinese imported goods kicked into effect on Monday, and China promised to retaliate in an escalating trade conflict that could jeopardize planned talks between the two sides.
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At the end of the day, the only policy compatible with Greenspan's inflationary monetary regime was reversion to completely managed trade and a shift to historically high tariffs on imported goods and services.
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And contrary to Mr. Trump's claim that the Chinese are paying the tariffs, several studies show they are being passed on to American consumers in the form of higher prices on imported goods.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Retailers and shoemakers continued to sound alarms on Monday about their concerns that President Donald Trump's plan to impose sweeping tariffs on imported goods from China will result in higher consumer prices.
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Prices for imported goods were down 22015 percent in the 25.0 months through April, reflecting the lingering effects of the dollar's sharp rally and the oil price plunge between June 2014 and December 2015.
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What they're not saying: Tariffs are a tax on imported goods paid by U.S. businesses that new research from the New York Fed suggests would increase taxpayers' overall costs by $106 billion a year.
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As part of its dig into the data, the BoE is trying to pull apart the price chain for imported goods from the moment they enter Britain to when they go onto the shelves.
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These price reductions have helped make investment an engine of economic expansion in emerging markets, which typically have higher investment costs than wealthier economies due partly to the need for imported goods and technologies.
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The proposed tax would exempt U.S. export revenues from federal corporate tax but levy an implicit 20 percent tax on imports by preventing U.S. companies from deducting the cost of imported goods and supplies.
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The downward trend of the currency's value may help the government in its battle against a parallel currency market and reduce demand for imported goods, allowing authorities to save some more of its reserves.
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That situation has been compounded this year by the squeeze in consumer spending, while the plunge in the pound following the vote to leave the European Union pushes up the price of imported goods.
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The government also sought to stimulate the economy with a $1.5 trillion tax cut package, which jolted both consumer and business spending, helping to lift imported goods to a record $3043 trillion in 2018.
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Other data on Thursday showed an increase in the prices of imported goods in February amid weakness in the U.S. dollar and rising commodity prices, bolstering expectations that inflation will pick up this year.
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Imposing tariffs on imported goods sets off a classic kind of cost-push inflation in which the inputs of a good, such as parts, materials and labor, rise in price and prompt rising prices.
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They could be counting on those deficits to clip America's GDP growth, keep the economy down, relieve labor shortages and dampen price pressures with imported goods and services American companies can no longer produce.
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The U.S. case is that higher wages mean "creating more middle-class Mexican buyers of imported goods, and reducing the incentive to shift car plants from high-wage countries," per the Globe and Mail.
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From there, all research seems to point to Pierre moving to San Francisco, legally changing his name to Tommy Wiseau and amassing a fortune selling cheap imported goods at a markup along Fisherman's Wharf.
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But at the least, if he follows through on his ideas, we could face higher prices on imported goods, rising interest rates, substantial inflation and a further shift of wealth to the upper classes.
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Reasons: The increase in the amount of imported goods was driven in part by a broader economic slowdown and the strength of the U.S. dollar, both of which weakened global demand for American exports.
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KS will boost the cost to U.S. businesses and consumers of a wide range of imported goods, from furniture and clothing to fresh fruit and frozen meat, according to federal agencies, shippers and retailers.
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If the dollar appreciates by 25 percent and other currencies fall by 20 percent in response to the 20103 percent import tax, then the cost of ImpCo's imported goods would fall from $800 to $640.
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British inflation is expected to rise sharply in 2017 as the impact of the fall in the value of the pound since the country's Brexit vote in June pushes up the price of imported goods.
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he was ready to impose tariffs on all $500 billion of imported goods from China, threatening to deepen a clash over trade policy that has unnerved financial markets.
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I will push for a multilateral trade agreement to protect green policies like subsidies for clean energy and impose a border carbon adjustment to charge a fee to imported goods made using carbon-intensive processes.
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While Republican business leaders and their lobbying groups push for free trade, Mr. Trump has rallied thousands by promising to slap 35 percent tariffs on imported goods made by American companies that move factories abroad.
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A rise in the yen, which is now around 115 to the dollar compared with 120 in January, will also weigh on inflation by pushing down the cost of imported goods and fuel, they said.
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The S&P Retail ETF rose 1.5 percent on Wednesday after Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin shot down the current version of a House proposal that threatened to impose a 20 percent levy on imported goods.
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he was ready to impose tariffs on all $500 billion of imported goods from China, threatening to escalate a clash over trade policy that has unnerved financial markets.
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For example, he hailed the reduction in February's trade deficit, even as the drop was driven by weaker U.S. demand for imported goods and stronger demand for U.S. exports driven by more vibrant economies elsewhere.
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The overall trade deficit has remained elevated despite the Trump administration's "America First" policies, which have led Washington to impose tariffs on a range of imported goods from China, sparking a trade war with Beijing.
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The BAT would levy a 20 percent tax on imported goods and would allegedly raise over a trillion dollars of revenue over the next decade, enough to pay for a significant corporate income tax cut.
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The staff continued to project that inflation would increase gradually over the next several years, as energy prices and the prices of non-energy imported goods were expected to begin steadily rising later this year.
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Details of the budget have not been released to the public but there may reportedly be a freeze on state hiring, a 2% tax on imported goods and an increase in tax on interest income.
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The protracted negotiations, which had stalled in the spring but are slated to resume in the coming weeks, have resulted in both countries slapping tariffs on billions of dollars' worth of each other's imported goods.
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Mr. Trump said he planned to impose a 5 percent tariff on all imported goods from Mexico, a tax he said would "gradually increase" until Mexico stopped the flow of undocumented immigrants across the border.
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Mr. Trump announced on Thursday that he would impose a 5 percent tax on all imported goods from the country beginning June 10 to push its government to stop unauthorized migrants from crossing the border.
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In an area packed with warehouses used to distribute imported goods all over the country, activists in the region have been focusing their ire on Amazon, blaming the behemoth for stagnant low wages and pollution.
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House Republicans and President Trump have been talking about imposing a 20 percent tax on imported goods, with a White House spokesman suggesting on Thursday that such a tax might start with goods from Mexico.
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Trade balance between the United States and select countries, 21 China $29b 200 300 400 500 Imports Exports $419 billion The trade deficit is the value of imported goods less the value of exported goods.
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So far, he has not fulfilled campaign threats such as withdrawing from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) or imposing steep import tariffs on imported goods such as German and Japanese cars manufactured abroad.
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One of the key sticking points until talks broke down was the timeline for removal of the 25% tariffs on $250 billion worth of imported goods from China that the Trump administration has already imposed.
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This is largely driven by the rising cost of imported goods and, in some cases, a mismatch between the proportions of foreign-currency revenue and debt, which can increase debt-service costs as the pound weakens.
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Prices of imported goods have soared as merchants are forced to source their dollars on the black market for as much as 15.5 pounds per dollar, a wide spread over the official rate of 8.8 pounds.
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To rebuild France's industrial base, sellers of imported goods would not be allowed to pass on all of the value-added sales tax to consumers as they do now, creating a levy resembling an import tax.
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Investors weighed the prospects of a likely inflationary boost to the U.S. economy if Trump pressed ahead with higher tariffs on imported goods coinciding with growing expectations of a U.S. interest rate later in the year.
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He also could use his authority to slap tariffs on imported goods he believes are illegally subsidized or dumped into the United States from other countries, something that both the current and former administrations have done.
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The ZRA said earlier on Tuesday it had issued a preliminary tax assessment of 76.5 billion Zambian kwacha to an unnamed "prominent mining company" for classifying imported goods as mining machinery, which attract no custom duty.
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"We cannot handle declaration business for imported goods at this moment because we don't have a tax account," said the official, who declined to be named as he is not authorised to talk to the media.
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The southern African nation, which adopted the U.S. dollar after dumping its hyperinflation-hit currency in 2009, is gripped by a shortage of cash dollars, which has seen prices of imported goods spiral in recent weeks.
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Britain currently imports 2.8 billion pounds ($3.52 billion) in imported goods and exports 440 million pounds ($553 million), making it a crucial trading hub for wine, according to the U.K.'s Wine and Spirit Trade Association.
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"We cannot handle declaration business for imported goods at this moment because we don't have a tax account," said the official, who declined to be named as he is not authorized to talk to the media.
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Lastly, the "border adjustable" corporate income tax would exempt the value of exported goods from taxation and tax the value of imported goods entering the United States, similar to how European nations treat imports and exports.
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In that report, Hamilton proposed that the federal government assume and honor all of the debts individual states had run up during the Revolutionary War, imposing new tariffs on imported goods to raise the needed revenue.
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The holidays played out against the backdrop of once-dominant retailer Sears' bankruptcy and its potential liquidation, as well as fears about higher tariffs on imported goods from China and an economic slowdown in that country.
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The commodities boom financed an African consumption binge on imported goods - domestic demand accounted for two-thirds of African growth in that period - that the continent can now ill afford as commodity revenues and currencies sink.
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Analysts have predicted that food prices will start to rise across the board in the coming months as supermarkets struggle to absorb the extra cost of imported goods, which are more expensive when a currency weakens.
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Currency exchange rates, for example, react strongly to central bank policy and have far-reaching economic consequences, determining how much people must pay for imported goods and also how cheaply companies can sell their products abroad.
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Prices are rising for imported goods, other nations are erecting retaliatory trade barriers, and companies like Plug Power, the manufacturing business that Mr. Marsh runs outside Albany, are facing crippling uncertainty from Mr. Trump's fickle approach.
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Trump proposed something nearly identical during the campaign, routinely calling for a 35 percent tax on imported goods from companies that moved jobs out of the country, singling out Carrier for moving a factory to Mexico.
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The Standards Organization of Nigeria (SON), the body responsible for setting requirements for imported goods, published tighter quality rules last year, but another government body - the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) - did not issue revised specifications.
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"There is power within the White House to increase duties on imported goods," Gary Hufbauer, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and an expert on trade law, told me earlier this year.
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A weaker currency also drives up the cost of imported goods, but even that can be beneficial: It helps Japan shake off a vicious cycle of falling prices that has led to lower profits and less spending.
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A trade battle between the two superpowers has seen billions of dollars' worth of each other's imported goods targeted with new tariffs, and both nations are trying to reach a trade agreement during a 90-day truce.
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Grocery shopping is a treat, especially in Phnom Penh, where there is a chain of Western supermarkets, as well as a number of other international supermarkets, where you can buy high quality imported goods at reasonable prices.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he was ready to impose tariffs on all $500 billion of imported goods from China, threatening to escalate a clash over trade policy that has unnerved financial markets.
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I will push for a multilateral trade agreement to protect green policies like subsidies for clean energy and I will impose a border carbon adjustment to charge a fee to imported goods made using carbon-intensive processes.
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The index, which the BOJ scrutinizes in gauging the broad price trend, showed annual consumer inflation slowed to 1.1 percent in January from 1.3 percent in December as the yen's rebound pushed down prices of imported goods.
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On tax reform, there is serious opposition to the GOP's border adjustment tax proposal, which would raise more than $1 trillion over a decade by essentially imposing taxes on imported goods while reducing taxes on exported goods.
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Instead, after only a few months in power, he called a snap election demanding a mandate from the British public to introduce protectionist tariffs on imported goods -- in effect abandoning Britain's 75-year commitment to free trade.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A sweeping tax reform proposal meant to boost U.S. manufacturing faces mounting pressure from industries that rely heavily on imported goods as President-elect Donald Trump and congressional Republicans work to finalize new tax legislation.
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He's also committed to carrying out Brexit, but wants the U.K. to stay in the single market and the customs union, which allow EU countries to freely trade goods and services, and limits tariffs on imported goods.
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Theoretically, given its strategic regional position, Puerto Rico should have access to imported goods at a more favorable rate than some parts of the mainland United States because of the numerous trade routes that traverse the Caribbean.
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Trump's primary objective in reworking NAFTA was to bring down U.S. trade deficits, a goal he has also pursued with China, by imposing hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs on imported goods from the Asian giant.
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Imbalances and injustices in trade between countries should be rectified with scalpel-like scrutiny of specific investments and business practices, rather than the sledgehammer of blanket tariffs on large classes of imported goods to avoid unintended consequences.
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Many in corporate America worry that if the Republican businessman-turned-politician begins to levy taxes against imported goods, nations like China will in turn impose large taxes and fees against U.S. goods that are exported there.
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But by threatening to shame companies for their job-location decisions, or to tax some of their imported goods at the border but not others, Trump is forging his own hand-to-hand approach to the economy.
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But the provision, which would essentially add a 20 percent tax on imported goods while exempting US exports, was the key solution House Republicans had come up with to raise enough revenue to offset corporate tax cuts.
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Mr. Trump said last week that he would impose a 5 percent tariff on all imported goods from Mexico beginning next Monday, and the tax that would "gradually increase" until the flow of undocumented immigrants is halted.
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Once in office, Mr. Trump immediately pulled the United States out of the multinational Trans-Pacific Partnership and initiated investigations into imported goods, like washing machines and solar panels, that he believed were flooding the American market.
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The "Waterfront" displays offer opportunities to touch and smell coffee beans and other imported goods, make videos reflecting the maritime past and dress up like the female welders of the Brooklyn Navy Yard during World War II.bhswaterfrontstorytelling.eventbrite.
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Sonos is suing in the US District Court in Los Angeles and through the United States International Trade Commission, according to The Times — notable, because the latter has the power to block imported goods that violate patents.
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But the executives were split over the plan's components, the official said, with those whose companies depend on imported goods raising concerns about one approach being discussed that would effectively place a 20 percent tax on imports.
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Mr. Trump has said the levies will affect at least $43 billion in imported goods and will most likely focus on cutting-edge tech products of the kind that United States fears losing out on to China.
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Pew said disapproval is strongest for Trump's policies of increasing tariffs or fees on imported goods from other countries (68%), withdrawing from international climate change agreements (66%) and building a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border (60%).
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In just over a month, a local plant in Winnsboro, South Carolina, will close its doors, pointing blame at the Trump administration's tariffs on imported goods from China, unless it's granted a lifeline in the trade war.
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While many items imported to the U.S. are not taxed, American import duties totaled up to $33.1 billion that year — or about 1.4 percent of the total value of all imported goods, according to Pew Research Center.
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Fritz said both candidates are arguing that NAFTA is "a bad thing," even though Trump has been more vocal than Clinton in warning about losing jobs to foreign competition and threatening to slap tariffs on imported goods.
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Many of those forgotten men and women might cheer the president for slapping tariffs on imported goods to defend U.S. factory jobs or his vow to build a wall on the Mexican border to block illegal immigration.
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The data was collected almost entirely before Britons voted to leave the EU on June 23, a result that caused sterling to plunge and raised expectations that inflation will rise sharply as Britain pays more for imported goods.
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There has been a 12 percent trade-weighted decline in sterling since the referendum, according to Deutsche Bank calculations, which will have made imported goods more expensive for U.K. consumers, although it will also make U.K. exports cheaper.
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Where inflation is noticeably high, it is generally in countries, such as Argentina (where it is 24%) or Egypt (32%), that have withdrawn costly price subsidies and whose currencies have fallen sharply in value, making imported goods dearer.
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Cutting tariffs on imported goods would ease the hit to British consumers from an expected jump in inflation in the event of a no-deal Brexit which would probably cause sterling to tumble and make imports more expensive.
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Prices of imported goods, including cooking oil and dairy products, have also risen, and businesses say they are being forced to buy foreign currency on the black market at a premium, raising fears of a return to hyperinflation.
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Outsourcing. Less than 10 percent of Canada's sperm is domestic, and Australia and England rely heavily on imported goods from the U.S. and Denmark (the world's two largest exporters of sperm, shipping to more than 80 countries worldwide).
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Fransabank will become the first bank under the EBRD's Trade Facilitation Programme in Lebanon, which aims to support international and intra-regional trade by providing guarantees and cash advances for import, export and local distribution of imported goods.
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"If prices of imported goods are rising for the U.S. consumer at an unmanageable rate, then there is a large part of the U.S. voting population that maybe will feel their money not going as far," she said.
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The WSJ's Greg Ip has a nice explanation of how imposing tariffs on imported goods can act as a tax on exports: Exports and imports tend to rise and fall together, proof that the underlying relationship still holds.
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The cash-strapped Cuban state that is facing a hike in U.S. sanctions has a monopoly on imports and exports and criticizes "hoarders" for buying imported goods in short supply from state stores to sell at a profit.
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She used her outfit as a teaching tool, telling lawmakers and staff members where each thread and zipper came from, and warning how a new wave of tariffs on imported goods would make the clothes much more expensive.
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TARIFFS AS A NEGOTIATING TOOL One of the key sticking points before talks broke down in May was whether the Trump administration would remove 25% tariffs it had imposed on $250 billion worth of imported goods from China.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump said Thursday that he would impose a 5 percent tariff on all imported goods from Mexico beginning June 10, a tax that would "gradually increase" until the flow of undocumented immigrants across the border stopped.
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Several studies released in recent months have shown that tariffs are being passed on to American consumers in the form of higher prices on imported goods, offsetting the stimulus of Mr. Trump's tax cut and chilling business investment.
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The White House's top trade advisor denied on Tuesday that the Trump administration was considering a three-month deferral of tariff payments on imported goods to ease the pain of the economic shutdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
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The FDA reiterated that there is no evidence that the virus can be transmitted through imported goods, but added that this is a "dynamic" situation and the agency will continue to assess it and update guidance as needed.
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Threats and intimidation on trade will never work on China, its foreign ministry said on Monday, after U.S. President Donald Trump said he was ready to impose tariffs on all $500 billion of imported goods from the country.
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In recent decades, the winners have included consumers who are able to buy cheaper clothes, electronics and other imported goods, and companies like Boeing and General Electric that have been able to sell more of their products overseas.
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If the deal goes through, proponents say they envision Chinese companies working with Italian counterparts, hiring local laborers to assemble imported goods before putting them on trains to the rest of Europe or on ships back to China.
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U.S. President Donald Trump said negotiations were progressing and a final deal "will probably happen," adding that his call for tariffs to remain on Chinese imported goods for some time did not mean the talks were in trouble.
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A 5% tariff on imported goods from Mexico, which last year totaled $347 billion, according to U.S. data, would result in a potential tax increase on American businesses and consumers of $17 billion, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce estimated.
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According to some analysts calculations, Campari would see a marginal benefit from a border tax, given that it produces two of its best sellers in the U.S., which would offset the losses imposed on imported goods, Kunze-Concewitz said.
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Local stocks posted their biggest one-day gain in more than a year as investor sentiment was buoyed after China cut tariffs on some imported goods from the United States, lifting some of the gloom from a coronavirus outbreak.
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Another jump in inflation numbers on Tuesday pushed money markets close to fully pricing in a rise in rates within the next 12 months to prevent another dive in the currency that would raise prices of imported goods further.
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"There is a noticeable shift in China toward quality over price, which we see in the growing numbers of consumers who are willing to pay more for branded and imported goods," JD.com CMO Lei Xu said in a statement.
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" That includes campaign pledges of subsidies for peasants, boosting local industry with the aim of reducing dependence on imported goods, and a massive program of paid youth apprenticeships and student stipends under the slogan "Scholarships yes, cartel hitmen no.
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The day after his tirade, the Trump Store inside the Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in New York boasted an array of imported goods, including teddy bears and T-shirts from China alongside products from Haiti, Nicaragua and Lesotho.
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A 5% tariff on imported goods from Mexico, which last year totaled $23 billion, according to U.S. data, would result in a potential tax increase on American businesses and consumers of $17 billion, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce estimated.
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Cutting import tariffs on imported goods would ease the hit to British consumers from an expected jump in inflation in the event of a no-deal Brexit which would probably cause sterling to tumble and make imports more expensive.
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Last week, China announced it will charge imported retail items purchased online in the same way as any other imported goods, scrapping a provision that enabled e-commerce companies to import goods more cheaply, reported China's Xinhua news agency.
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With the euro EUR= up almost 14 percent against the euro this year, the ECB this month cut some of its inflation projections, arguing that the currency would weigh on the price of imported goods, keeping price growth down.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Opponents of a proposal to create a U.S. border tax on imported goods are targeting lawmakers in their home states for the next two weeks while Congress is in recess, according to organizers of the lobbying effort.
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On the negative side of the ledger, we feel that with tax reform, the administration missed an opportunity create an America First tax system that would end offshoring incentives by taxing imported goods and services while exporting tax free.
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U.S. tariffs on imported goods from China and other parts of the world — and President Donald Trump's generally antagonistic stance with trade partners — is creating risks to the American economy, according to New York University economics professor Nouriel Roubini.
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And if threats of a trade war with China or other countries turn into reality, this will tend to increase inflation, driving up prices both directly through new tariffs on imported goods and indirectly by encouraging less efficient production.
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Cut off from international investors and markets, Iran has in recent years focused on forging a so-called resistance economy in which the state has invested aggressively, subsidizing strategic industries, while seeking to substitute domestic production for imported goods.
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It recently made it easier for foreign investors to buy rupee bonds issued by Indian companies and raised tariffs on imported goods like washing machines and diamonds, measures designed to reduce the flow of money out of the country.
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" Michael Salerno, lead director of global banking at First National Bank of Omaha, said U.S. companies must attempt to absorb the higher costs on imported goods, which could translate into "higher prices at the register around the holiday season.
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Trump's tariffs on imported goods from China contributed toward the federal government's revenue increasing 3% in the first 11 months of the 2019 fiscal year, along with other sources such as individual income and payroll taxes and corporate taxes.
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Trump warned Thursday evening, over Twitter, that he would soon start taxing imported goods from Mexico if the government doesn't do more to stop the flow of migrants from Central America who are seeking asylum at the US border.
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In an area that voted for Britain to leave the European Union, there seems to be little sympathy for Unilever, whose costs have risen because the pound has plunged since the June vote on EU membership, making imported goods more expensive.
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Currency hedging and other self-help measures will limit the near-term financial impact but ratings could be affected if companies are unable to rebalance capital structures or limit the impact on the cost of imported goods when hedges expire.
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Since tariffs against China went into effect on July 6, the tech industry has paid $349 million more on imported goods from China compared with a year ago, according to Consumer Technology Association data compiled and analyzed by the Trade Partnership.
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Intel and Apple have both dropped more than 7.877% in the six trading days since the president's tweet on May 33, when he said that levies on $23 billion of imported goods from China would climb to 23% from 220%.
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U.S. President Donald Trump has said trade negotiations with China were progressing and a final agreement "will probably happen," adding that his call for tariffs to remain on Chinese imported goods for some time did not mean talks were in trouble.
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In a letter to Republican and Democratic leadership on Tuesday, the CEOs said a Republican-proposed border adjustment tax would make U.S.-manufactured products more competitive abroad and at home by making imported goods face the same level of taxation.
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On Thursday, Trump announced that he plans to impose a 5 percent tariff on all imported goods from Mexico as a direct response to the number of unauthorized immigrants who are arriving in the United States via the southern border.
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In a surprise move, Trump tweeted on May 5 that tariffs on $63 billion worth of Chinese goods would increase to 25% and that another 25% tariff would "shortly" be imposed on an additional $325 billion of imported goods from China.
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Yet underwhelming earnings reports earlier this week from Target to department store Kohl's Corp and home-improvement specialist Lowe's Cos Inc reminded investors that U.S. tariffs on imported goods, fickle consumer tastes and competition could eat away at profits this year.
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But growth in wages slowed, possibly signalling tougher times ahead for households which are likely to face higher inflation because of the post-Brexit vote fall in the value of the pound which will push up the cost of imported goods.
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Separately, judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei said special prosecutors would swiftly deal with economic crime, including profiteering from foreign exchange and gold dealings, illegal imports of luxury cars and price gouging on imported goods such as mobile phones, state media said.
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LONDON, May 25 (Reuters) - British bicycles to car parts retailer Halfords on Thursday reported a 7.5 percent fall in annual profit, hurt by the post-Brexit vote fall in the value of the pound that increased the costs of imported goods.
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While significant challenges to the Lebanese economy remain, "the risk of a crisis appears to have been averted for now," he said, adding that the country still has reserves equaling roughly 11 months of cash to pay for imported goods.
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"The sharp decline in the value of sterling since June 2016 has created cost pressures on imported goods and materials, and the expectations for secondary housing market transactions and growth in the repair, maintenance and improvement market have weakened," it said.
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Kaola, owned by NetEase Inc, sells apparel, household appliances and other products, and is the biggest among Chinese shopping sites that focus on imported goods, followed by Tmall Global and JD Worldwide, according to a report here from consulting agency iiMedia.
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U.S. President Donald Trump said trade negotiations with China were progressing and a final agreement "will probably happen," adding that his call for tariffs to remain on Chinese imported goods for some time did not mean the talks were in trouble.
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The prices of imported goods in North Korea have remained stable, says Stephan Haggard of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, an American think-tank, suggesting that the latest round of sanctions has not led to a shortage of foreign currency.
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NEW YORK, Dec 13 (Reuters) - The U.S. bond market's gauges of investors' inflation expectations held steady on Thursday as prices of imported goods and services fell 1.6 percent in November, which was their steepest drop in more than three years.
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The problem for Mr. Trump — or any president who wants to get tough on trade violators — is that, in the global economy, imposing tariffs on competitors abroad could have serious economic consequences at home by sharply raising prices on imported goods.
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" The June 6900 letter, shared with The Hill, warned the president that U.S. tariffs "are already having the opposite effect of the 2628 tax cuts, raising prices on consumers and businesses that buy imported goods for consumption or use in production.
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Jones' customers have to pay a bond to cover any fines and fees associated with imported goods and he said they were hit with hefty extra payments last week as the price of those bonds went up in anticipation of tariffs.
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Tariffs are as old as the republic itself: The first substantive piece of legislation passed by Congress, on July 219, 220, placed a 221 percent tariff on most imported goods, with special duties to protect domestic products like wine and candles.
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But Toyota, which has a 30 percent market share, only proposed a small plant producing up to 10,000 vehicles using imported goods and the Saudis wanted a bigger factory, the industry source and the source familiar with the talks said.
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To finance its construction, Mr. Trump appears to have embraced a House Republican proposal to impose a 20 percent tax on imported goods, but an uproar on Thursday prompted the White House to say it was just "one idea" under consideration.
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All told, one study of 303 countries found that if international trade ended, the wealthiest consumers would lose 230 percent of their purchasing power while those in the bottom tenth, who typically rely on more imported goods, would lose 230 percent.
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On Thursday, Mr. Trump said he would impose a 5 percent tariff on all imported goods from Mexico beginning June 10, and threatened to raise those tariffs if Mexico did not take action on undocumented migrants traveling toward the United States.
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And in November 2015, the European Union issued new guidelines on the labeling of imported goods that distinguish between goods from Israel proper and those from its settlements in occupied Palestinian territories, a policy that's expected to hurt Israeli exports.
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Mines Minister Richard Musukwa said during a meeting with suppliers, labour unions and other officials on the proposed law that the mining sector imported goods and services worth over $4 billion annually but only 10 percent went to local suppliers.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Republican U.S. representative on Thursday introduced White House-drafted legislation that would give President Donald Trump more power to levy tariffs on imported goods in an effort to pressure other countries to lower their duties and other trade barriers.
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At one point during his latest interview with the Wall Street Journal, President Trump mixes up tariffs (a kind of sales tax imposed on imported goods) with interest rates, which are the extra money you owe when you take out a loan.
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"Border tax adjustment may lead to a higher value in the dollar and changes in imported goods," Dudley said in the question-and-answer portion of his appearance after his speech at a gathering of the National Retail Federation in New York.
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Global trade tensions ratcheted higher throughout May after Trump ordered tariffs on billions of dollars of imported goods from China to rise to 25% from 10%, and progress toward a trade deal between the world's two largest economies ground to a halt.
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If the new president doesn't want a nightmare situation in which consumer electronics and other imported goods sky rocket in price, he's going to have to move beyond sound bites and photo ops to dig into the endlessly complicated world of policy.
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In contrast, for companies that see half their business come from inside the U.S., earnings are expected to grow 1.4% as they are not subject to the rising costs of imported goods and seeing their wares subjected to duties in foreign markets.
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Pervasive import tariffs will continue to push up prices of imported goods and services, and they will also stimulate local production in the U.S. at a time of very tight labor markets, high capacity pressures on factory floors and runaway energy prices.
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After years of falling prices driven by rising competition among the big supermarket chains amid little or no consumer inflation, grocery prices have been tipped to rise as sterling weakness following Britain's vote to leave the European Union make imported goods more expensive.
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Although the Fed's monetary policies of recent years likely put downward pressure on the dollar, the effect of the weaker dollar on US net exports was largely offset by the effects of higher US incomes on Americans' demand for imported goods and services.
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LONDON, March 5 (Reuters) - Britain would scrap 80-90 percent of tariffs on imported goods if it leaves the European Union without a deal but would keep them on sensitive sectors such as cars, beef and lamb, broadcaster Sky News reported on Tuesday.
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" From retaliating with higher tariffs on Chinese imported goods on Friday to asserting on Monday there would be productive, "calm" trade talks with Beijing, Trump drove financial markets down and back up, and was described by some financial analysts as "a nuisance.
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The act raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods at the height of the Great Depression in which real national income fell by over one-third, one-in-four Americans became unemployed and over 40 percent of banks shuttered their doors.
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The central bank also said it believed that the annual inflation rate over the next three years would surpass its policy target of 2 percent, reaching 2.4 percent in 2018 as a weak currency pushed up the prices of imported goods and services.
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WASHINGTON, Jan 30 (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers have introduced legislation to limit the president's power to levy tariffs on imported goods for national security reasons, the latest sign of concern on Capitol Hill over the rising costs of the Trump administration's trade policies.
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Kaola, owned by Nasdaq-listed NetEase Inc, sells apparel, household appliances and other products, and is the biggest among Chinese shopping sites that focus on imported goods, followed by Tmall Global and JD Worldwide, according to a report from consulting agency iiMedia.
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The Trump administration recently threatened to impose steep tariffs on Chinese imported goods unless Beijing pledges to make big cuts in its trade surplus with the U.S. China, in turn, retaliated with threats of big tariffs on farm products and auto parts.
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U.S. automakers and their suppliers, for example, have already invested billions in plants abroad and would face an expensive and time-consuming transition to buy thousands of American-made parts if President Trump's proposed "border tax" on imported goods were to become law.
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CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - Volvo Cars would suffer if the United States enacts taxes on imported goods, even as the company prepares to hire up to 4,000 workers for a new plant in South Carolina, the head of its North American operations said.
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AzInsurance faces additional risk related to the reduction in imports, as cargo insurance, mainly focused on imported goods, accounted for 34% of the insurer's net written premiums in 2010-15493 and has been a consistently strong contributor to the insurer's underwriting result.
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Unemployment is shooting up, especially among the country's youth, inflation is spiraling higher because of the cost of imported goods, and there have been water and power shortages due to a lack infrastructure investment after years of on-again, off-again sanctions.
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So when a tariff drives up the price of imports to consumers, leading them to buy fewer imported goods, the welfare loss will be roughly Loss = fall in imports * ½ tariff rate Now, the U.S. currently spends 93 percent of GDP on imports.
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Of those who favor free trade over blind protectionism, more recognize that the obstacles to free trade are increasing with the growth of government subsidies around the world and the large number of protective tariffs against imported goods in countries around the world.
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BEIJING, July 23 (Reuters) - Threats and intimidation on trade will never work on China, its foreign ministry said on Monday, after U.S. President Donald Trump said he was ready to impose tariffs on all $500 billion of imported goods from the country.
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Roughly half the value of those exports stems from imported goods like semiconductors and oil, said Nicholas Lardy, a longtime China specialist at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, so the net importance of exports to the United States is even less.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain would scrap 80-90 percent of tariffs on imported goods if it leaves the European Union without a deal but would keep them for sensitive sectors such as cars and some agricultural products, broadcaster Sky News reported on Tuesday.
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The dollar has gained more than 4 percent on a trade-weighted basis so far this year, which could temper the anticipated increases in the prices of some imported goods as a result of trade tensions between the United States and major economies.
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Trump said his decision to slap tariffs on billions in imported goods is part of his strategy to level the global playing field, which he said has been unbalanced due in part to tightening U.S. monetary policy while other central banks remain accommodative.
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"The Turkish economic crisis and slumping lira will impact on bilateral trade, as the cost of imported goods will rise significantly in Turkish lira terms due to the sharp currency depreciation this year," said IHS Markit Asia Pacific Chief Economist Rajiv Biswas.
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"These kinds of punitive tariffs can be greatly damaging to small businesses who rely on imported goods to provide a service, and can further harm small businesses looking to export due to retaliatory tariffs," NSBA President and CEO Todd McCracken said in a statement.
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His anti-free-trade message and pledges to stem the tide of imported goods from China and Mexico won him massive support among blue-collar workers in the industrial heartland states of Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, helping to swing the election his way.
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Consumer prices have risen because of weakness in the peso, which has pushed up the cost of imported goods, and a big increase in gasoline prices by the government in January as the country moves from regulated prices to a free market for fuel.
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If implemented, the new rules would have meant tighter customs treatment and higher tax rates on overseas goods sold on Chinese e-commerce sites, which previously allowed shoppers to buy imported goods via cross-border e-commerce zones on a special parcel tax rate.
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Depending on the week, Mr Trump's stated remedies have included a promise to order his Treasury Secretary to declare China a currency manipulator, promises to put TPP talks on hold, and threats to place tariffs of 5%, 10% or even 45% on imported goods.
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In the financial year that ended March 31, India exported a little over $9 billion worth of goods to China, while it imported goods worth $61.7 billion, taking the trade deficit to a whopping $52.7 billion, according to trade body FICCI's East Asian Division.
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Those policy changes include a wide range of promises from the Trump administration and GOP-controlled Congress that could have a major impact on the economy, from a major overhaul in taxes to possible new tariffs on imported goods that further increase prices for consumers.
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"I'm not of the view that import prices would go up 10 percent, the dollar would appreciate by exactly 10 percent, so that the value that retailers pay for imported goods would be exactly the same in dollar terms," Dudley told the NRF audience.
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India's case charges that the energy program measures are inconsistent with WTO's rules "because they provide less favorable treatment to imported products than to like domestic products, and because the subsidies are contingent on the use of domestic over imported goods," the trade group said.
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The markets seems to have shrugged off data which showed U.S. trade deficit surged to a 10-year high in 2018, with the politically sensitive shortfall with China hitting a record peak, despite the Trump administration slapping tariffs on a range of imported goods.
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The markets seemed to have shrugged off data which showed U.S. trade deficit surged to a 10-year high in 2018, with the politically sensitive shortfall with China hitting a record peak, despite the Trump administration slapping tariffs on a range of imported goods.
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MUMBAI, Feb 1 (Reuters) - India outlined a farmer-friendly budget on Thursday, but for its burgeoning middle class, who aspire to own luxury goods ranging from Ray-Bans to iPhones, and Zippos to Fitbits - imported goods are set to get a whole lot costlier.
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Center-right President Mauricio Macri, who took office in December, has rolled out a raft of free-market reforms that have pushed up consumer prices, including floating the peso , which boosted the cost of imported goods, and cutting subsidies that had kept utility prices low.
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During a conference call, GM Chief Executive Officer Mary Barra and Chief Financial Officer Chuck Stevens were asked if there would be any impact on the company if President Donald Trump succeeds in imposing new taxes on imported goods such as auto parts or vehicles.
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U.S. tariffs on foreign steel, aluminum and more than $360 billion of Chinese goods have chipped away at profits for companies that depend on imported goods and parts, slowed business investment and weighed on households, particularly those on the lower end of the income scale.
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The protesters in Santa Clara, the hometown of Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, in the province of Villa Clara, vented their fury at local authorities for enforcing an existing nationwide ban on private entrepreneurs selling imported goods, the two witnesses told Reuters by phone.
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One of his first projects was a poll of 300 carefully selected consumers in four regions about imported goods, an idea prompted by the opening in 853 of the St. Lawrence Seaway, which made it possible to ship directly to the Midwest at lower costs.
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SHANGHAI — China announced Thursday evening that it would cut tariffs sharply on July 1 for an eclectic array of imported goods, the latest in a series of moves by Beijing to dismantle steep trade barriers at a time of rising frictions with the United States.
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But that could also result in more Chinese taking their money out of the country, as well as inflation for a nation that increasingly buys what it needs from abroad, like oil, because a weak currency means China must pay more for imported goods.
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WASHINGTON, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Expanded negotiations against North Korea announced on Thursday would "be very" good if they succeed in cutting off imported goods, and showed lessening support from China toward Pyongyang, U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told CNBC in an interview on Friday.
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Peter Navarro, the head of the new White House office overseeing trade and industrial policy, is a vociferous critic of globalization who has contended that American purchases of imported goods at Walmart are helping China pay for nuclear-tipped missiles aimed at the United States.
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Shortly before leaving for Christmas break, some members of Donald Trump's transition team floated the idea of a 10 percent tariff — a tax on imported goods — as a means of fulfilling Trump's campaign pledges to boost American manufacturing and protect American workers from foreign competition.
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"To the extent that tariffs are borne by foreign producers through narrower profit margins, we would see a drop in import prices even as U.S. consumers and producers are paying more for imported goods," said John Ryding, chief economist at RDQ Economics in New York.
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Global trade tensions ratcheted higher throughout the month after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered tariffs on billions of dollars of imported goods from China to rise to 25% from 10%, and progress toward a trade deal between the world's two largest economies ground to a halt.
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Of the 110 companies that have already reported third-quarter earnings through Tuesday's close, 41 of them — or 37 percent — have either explicitly discussed or answered questions about the taxes on imported goods and their fallout on their conference calls with analysts, according to a FactSet search.
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If Paul Ryan and other congressional Republicans who've long supported free trade wanted to write legislation curtailing Trump's ability to invoke spurious national security claims to raise taxes on imported goods, it seems overwhelmingly likely that they would be able to get the votes to do so.
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"The sharp decline in the value of sterling since June 22015 has created cost pressures on imported goods and materials, and the expectations for secondary housing market transactions and growth in the repair, maintenance and improvement market have weakened," Chief Executive John Carter said on Thursday.
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President Donald Trump announced on Twitter on Thursday, May 30, that he will impose a 5% tariff on imported goods from Mexico starting June 10, and will "gradually increase" it by 853% each month up to October until "such time as illegal migrants coming through Mexico" stop.
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The performance is unwelcome news at a time of stock market volatility and when forecasters are trimming economic growth outlooks, trade tensions are intensifying and driving up the cost of imported goods and economists are scratching their heads to figure out if we are headed for recession.
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Warren, who has offered the most voluminous policy proposals in the crowded field of Democrats hoping to challenge Republican President Donald Trump in the November 2020 election, also proposed a "border carbon adjustment" tax that would be levied against imported goods that require "carbon-intensive" manufacturing processes.
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While Cohn said he thinks a December interest rate increase is "a foregone conclusion," he's concerned it might make imported goods cheaper than what is available in the U.S. If foreign cars become cheaper than American cars, for instance, it could hamper job creation, he said.
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"President Trump's views on commerce, including the renegotiation of trade agreements that are essential to the global economy, as well as the threat of a tax surge on imported goods, has the potential to impact the whole structure of my business to say the least," she said.
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"The sharp decline in the value of sterling since June 2016 has created cost pressures on imported goods and materials, and the expectations for secondary housing market transactions and growth in the repair, maintenance and improvement market have weakened," the company's chief executive, John Carter, said.
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And if you're only planning to see the inside of a hotel room and the bottom of a jeroboam of champagne, you can save over $2,000 by choosing Cairo over Caracas where a shortage of imported goods and multiple exchange rates have drastically inflated some prices.
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"That is partly because a modest pick-up in productivity growth has kept a lid on unit labor costs and partly because the rising dollar has started to put downward pressure on imported goods prices," said Paul Ashworth, chief U.S. economist at Capital Economics in Toronto.
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A conservative thintank, for example, finds that his deportation plan would knock 2% off GDP; his combimnation of tax cuts for the rich and tariffs (higher prices on imported goods bought by the poor) would widen the inequality that many of his supporters are concerned about.
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Trump has vowed to scrap U.S. trade deals, slap a tariff on imported goods and raise taxes on hedge-fund managers, as well as retain some sort of mandate to purchase health insurance - clashing with the free-market principles that have long underpinned Republican economic policy.
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Tyler, actually one of the best presidents ever to serve, did not agree with his party's program of enacting high tariffs (taxes) on imported goods and using the money to pay for unconstitutional items such as federal public works projects and restoration of a national bank.
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WHISTLER, British Columbia (Reuters) - The United States should focus on freeing up trade in services rather than imposing tariffs on imported goods, Bank of England Governor Mark Carney said on Thursday after the United States said it would levy tariffs on steel and aluminum imported from the European Union.
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"I don't think Nigeria has the capacity to effectively supervise and to ensure that our colleagues in AU don't allow their countries to be used to dump goods on us to the detriment of our young industries and our capacity to utilise foreign exchange for imported goods," he said.
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The DIHK Chambers of Industry and Commerce this week more than halved its forecast for export growth this year, to 1%, and the VDMA engineering body said retaliatory tariffs on imported goods imposed by the United States and China would contribute to a 2% decline in production this year.
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Chinese policymakers have long said that they are willing to cut tariffs in particular, but want concessions from the United States, such as curbs on the Commerce Department's ability to impose steep tariffs on imported goods that are government subsidized or are dumped below the cost of producing them.
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Essentially, economists are telling them "trust us, our models say the currency will adjust and it will all come out in the wash," but if the models are wrong, for companies like Walmart, Target and many others that sell large volumes of imported goods, their viability could be threatened.
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President Trump sent the stock market tumbling early Monday with a weekend tweet threatening to levy more extensive tariffs on imported goods from China — launching another round of the seesaw between the president's love of record Dow Jones closings and his firm belief in the merits of coercive trade policy.
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"While the fall in sterling has boosted visitor numbers to the UK, it is likely to push up the price of imported goods over time, which will mean households will be more likely to rein back spending on non-essentials," Anna Leach, CBI Head of Economic Analysis and Surveys, said.
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"These numbers reflect the reduction in the availability of several products, many of them in high demand, and this includes imported goods and others of domestic production that use imported raw materials," said a local economist, who asked not to be identified due to restrictions on talking with foreign journalists.
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While final language of the BAT isn't available, a tax on imported goods and a tax exemption for exported items (which amounts to an export subsidy), would probably violate the so-called national treatment principle of the WTO and the rules of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
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After rumors the past few weeks that the president was considering expanding tariffs to another $267 billion worth of imported goods from China, the administration announced today that it would expand them merely to another $200 billion worth of goods, which has the convenience of being a nice round number.
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Ahead of the budget, the trade ministry has also asked the finance ministry to consider a Border Adjustment Tax (BAT) on imported goods to level the playing field for domestic players that also have to pay local taxes like electricity duties and levies on fuel, the second government official said.
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In addition to the tariffs on $250 billion worth of imported goods from China, Trump is preparing to extend tariffs to the remaining $300 billion of Chinese imports, and will be in a position to make a decision on implementing them after July 2, when a public comment period closes.
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Warren didn't shy away from protectionist policies, endorsing a carbon tax for imported goods made using "carbon-intensive processes" and splitting with the practice of mutual recognition used for approved foreign food safety standards, promising she would beef up inspections at the border and require imported food to meet domestic food standards.
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US consumers end up swallowing increased costs because tariffs cause the price of the taxed goods to go up, as Vox's Matthew Yglesias has explained: The way a tariff works is that it's basically like a sales tax, except instead of being paid on all goods, it's paid only on imported goods.
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They're meant to raise revenue or protect domestic industries from foreign competition, but they often result in higher prices for businesses that rely on the imported goods — say, manufacturers that use steel and aluminum imports in their supply chain — and, ultimately, for consumers when companies pass on the extra prices to them.
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This would effectively introduce an import tax and raise the price of imported goods, boosting the competitiveness of metals and other goods produced in the EU. The aim would be to counter "carbon leakage" whereby EU industries are penalised by cheaper imports from countries that apply less strict rules to tackle climate change.
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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration said Tuesday that it will place a 25 percent tariff on Chinese products like flat-screen televisions, medical devices, aircraft parts and batteries, outlining more than 1,300 imported goods that will soon face levies as part of a sweeping trade measure aimed at penalizing China for its trade practices.
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Most common is an imbalance in a nation's savings and investment rates, a bigger government budget deficit (due to more federal spending or a huge tax cut) and a growing economy that allows people to spend more on imported goods along with greater access to credit and lower credit rates, which fuel consumption.
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The large-scale fraud, which involves underdeclaring the value of imported goods to pay lower duties and sales taxes, was first uncovered in Britain, where it had gone on for years, prompting the European Commission this year to demand that London pay 2.7 billion euros ($3.1 billion) in lost customs duties to the EU budget.
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Trump has imposed punitive tariffs on $250 billion worth of imported goods from China so far - a 25 percent duty on $50 billion worth of machinery, semiconductors and other technology-related products, and 53 percent tariffs on a broader, $200 billion range of goods that includes many chemicals, building materials, furniture and some consumer electronics.
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Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, will argue that Mr. Trump's proposals to increase tariffs on imported goods, cut taxes for the wealthiest Americans and try to get creditors to accept less than full payment on the national debt would lead to a financial meltdown worse than that of 2008, her aides said in interviews.
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A "Dateline" investigation said Walmart was buying shirts from a factory in Bangladesh that used child labor and that the company was displaying imported goods in its stores under signs that said "Made in the U.S.A." Another Walmart executive stopped the interview while the cameras were rolling and hustled Mr. Glass off the air.
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Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond President Thomas Barkin said in a question-and-answer session at an agricultural trade conference in Richmond, Virginia, that, while U.S. President Donald Trump's steel tariffs imposed last year had a wide impact, similar taxes levied on other imported goods have had a "much more mixed" effect on consumer prices.
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KEY RATING DRIVERS Demand to Weaken: Fitch expects demand for consumer durables to be sluggish in the next six to 12 months due to rising interest rates, an increase in taxes on consumer durables and a depreciating Sri Lankan rupee, which raises the prices of imported goods that account for the majority of products sold by Abans.
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The large-scale fraud, which consists in underdeclaring the value of imported goods to pay lower duties and sales taxes, was first uncovered in Britain, where it had gone on for years, prompting the European Commission this year to demand that London pay 2.7 billion euros ($3.1 billion) worth of lost customs duties to the EU budget.
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At Atlantic ports in the southern United States, harbor channels are being deepened to handle bigger ships moving through a widened Panama Canal; cranes are being heightened to unpack the larger stacks of containers; new ship berths and expanded rail hubs are opening the door wider for the imported goods demanded by American consumers and businesses.
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That resulted in the application of tariffs on $250 billion worth of imported goods from China, to which Beijing countered with duties on $110 billion worth of goods from the U.S. In the last several months, the negotiations between both sides have increasingly centered on issues of intellectual property protection and claims of forced technology transfer.
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U.S. President Donald Trump has imposed punitive tariffs on $250 billion worth of imported goods from China so far — a 25 percent duty on $50 billion worth of machinery, semiconductors and other technology-related products, and 10 percent tariffs on a broader, $200 billion range of goods that includes many chemicals, building materials, furniture and some consumer electronics.
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The executive order is meant to be an economic shot in the arm for workers held up as symbols of the president's tough-on-trade stance, even as some have faced shaky economic prospects over the administration's decisions to impose high tariffs on imported goods and to start several global disputes, including a damaging trade war with China.
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One of the most interesting questions posed by Ferenstein speaks to middle and working class anxieties over global competition: In international trade policy, some people believe the U.S. government should create laws that favor American business with policies that protect it from global competition, such as fees on imported goods or making it costly to hire cheaper labor in other countries ("outsourcing").
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A nearby farmer who'd been watching the project closely thinks it's a ploy to get investor visas using commercial bonds and an excuse for Koch Industries to pipe freshwater over the subcontinental divide and for the military to make large screens inside the US, and that the final product will be a city of tax-protected warehouses and assembly facilities for mostly imported goods.
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China trade war: What to know A look at why the United States and China are moving closer to a potential trade war As President Trump prepares to head to a summit with NATO allies in Belgium July 11 and another summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Finland July 16, he's drawing criticism from Democrats, some Republicans and many foreign governments for imposing tariffs on imported goods.
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While Champaign is the kind of Corn Belt town that is often upheld as prototypically Middle America — predominantly white, Christian and Republican — Hoganson discovered it was far from a backwater: Her neighbors bought imported goods at the same big box stores that dotted the rest of the country; they ate produce from Mexico and Chile and kept in touch with family members who had migrated to coastal cities.
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The prevailing mood among the free-marketers is that the imposition of taxes or tariffs on imports, a policy promulgated by President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE, will make imported goods and services more expensive, reduce consumption, and subsequently hurt the economy.
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