Word: tariff
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...course there are plenty of Third World trade unionists on board, although they don't see eye to eye with their American cousins when it comes to tariff protections. And needless to say, the governments of developing countries are hostile to having First World labor standards applied in their countries, which they see as a device to eliminate their competitive advantages...
...involvement in its disappearance. The modern lack of unclaimed land led Fowler to take over a few patches of Mankato, specifically a teacher's office at Mankato West High School. A great deal of air space was also declared to be the property of the Kisone Republic. A stiff tariff was imposed upon people entering the office, but it proved hard to maintain...
...surplus to pay down the U.S. national debt. He favors targeted, middle class tax cuts, but shies away from the broad tax cutting strategies of George W. Bush and John S. McCain. On trade, he has been a consistent supporter of global market agreements, and says he strongly supports tariff reductions. He supports the granting of most-favored nation trading status for China...
...says one official urged him, off the record, to break the law--to change the number on the Customs invoice so it would appear that he was importing goods not subject to the tariff. Reinert demurred. "I could end up in jail for it," he says. "I don't want to be the only one without a chair when the music stops...
Meanwhile, in a tariff-free and quota-free Germany, Chiquita had seized 45% of the market. Envisioning the same potential for all of Europe, as well as the former Soviet satellites that were opening up, Chiquita and its chief competitor, Dole Food, decided in the early 1990s to pour more money into production and flood the European market with bananas. With more bananas than buyers, prices--and hence profits--plummeted...