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...program calls for tariffs to be reduced or eliminated on 1,853 products, including telecommunications equipment, auto parts and plywood. In addition the government will make a fresh start at dismantling the maze of regulations that hamper efforts by foreign companies to sell in Japan. Imported cars, for example, will no longer have to be inspected at the Ministry of Transport, though they will still be looked over by dealers. Companies that sell foreign-made nail polish will not have to get government approval for each new color. Importers of pharmaceuticals will not need a license from the Health...
...must be serious about tackling company tax obstacles that hamper business and undermine international competitiveness
...struggled to devise a common set of European corporate tax rules that are acceptable to all. The Marks & Spencer case, taken together with other rulings, now provides the Commission with powerful ammunition in the form of unequivocal case law. "We must be serious about tackling company tax obstacles that hamper businesses and undermine international competitiveness," Robert Verrue, director general of the Commission's tax and customs directorate, said in a speech last year. "We in the Commission strongly believe that a single E.U.-wide company tax base is, in the long term, the best response to the current challenges...
...preparing a human-rights complaint against the U.S. government for "failing to prosecute vigilante groups." Local officials in Arizona are nervous about hundreds of Minuteman volunteers coming from out of state, and Michael Nicely, head of the Border Patrol's Tucson sector, says the Minuteman Project will "hamper border safety...
...outlook appears relatively good for Europe too, despite the huge revaluation of the euro against the dollar, which Tyson, among others, last year warned would hamper economic growth. The Europeans have so far managed to keep their economy's recovery on track--slow, perhaps, but definitely better than a recession. How did that happen? The euro's rise, in theory, made European exports far less competitive. But until now that effect seems to have been mitigated by the overall increase in worldwide demand for goods. Exports from Germany, Europe's biggest economy, rose 10% last year, to a record...