Tariff Quotations

A multilateral world trade system is our very best hope for addressing the broad range of issues such as market access, tariff and nontariff barriers to trade, trade in services, and trade facilitation.

The electricity tariff in Punjab is highest in north India, and it should be decreased.

The biggest trade that Germany and Britain had was with each other, in the prewar period; I think I'm right in that. Two highly industrialized nations had the most trade with each other, and it wasn't tariff policies alone that made trade relations better for both of them.

John Quincy Adams ranks with Jimmy Carter on the roster of ex-presidential redemption. Instead of completing a biography of his father, he let himself be elected to the House, where he spent nine terms in Whiggish opposition to the Democrats, supporting a national bank and a protective tariff and internal improvements.

Every increase of protective duties is necessarily followed, in the present condition of our country, by an expansion of the currency, which must continue to increase till the increased price of production, caused by the expansion, shall be equal to the duty imposed, when a new tariff will be required.

We're short here domestically. So we should be able to get increased exports (of ethanol) from Brazil. This assumes no change in the tariff structure.

(PNTR) will keep our credit relationships stable. Everyone won't have to worry if the tariff rate will be different.

On the heels of the G-20 and Australian offerings on sensitive products, we hope to see much more ambition from the EU. The current EU proposal allows for 8 percent of tariffs, 160 different tariff lines, to be deemed 'sensitive' and thus exempt from strong cuts,

I don't know what would be worse, maybe a tariff on infant formula.

I believe there is a perception in Indian trade and industry circles that the European market is becoming increasingly difficult to penetrate. As tariff barriers disintegrate, non-tariff barriers suddenly come up,

If a few of these are unavoidable, tariff caps should be imposed on them. Otherwise exemptions will simply derail market access however large the cut in tariffs and most of the potential welfare gains from global agricultural reform will simply not materialize.

Globally, there's a 62% average tariff on agricultural products. In some countriesàit's more than 100%.

We can fix the duties in our own tariff and on our imports, but we cannot fix the duties in the tariffs of foreign countries and on their imports.

It is lower cost for us to buy our own cranes. The port charged us a tariff for using the cranes.

It is high time that the E.U.'s internal market delivered substantially lower communications charges for consumers and business people traveling abroad. A mobile-phone customer should not be charged a higher tariff just because he -- or she -- is traveling abroad.

Our interest is in having the tariff and the quota removed as soon as possible. That's what we continue to argue for,

Our tariff system would look to benchmark the cost of services, so that cost differences would be apparent between boards and so that it could be used in cross-border flows of patients. This will encourage boards to deliver services more efficiently, freeing up more funds for front-line healthcare.

Our companies have monopoly status, which does not let them implement flexible tariff policy. And eventually it will affect their business efficiency.

The abolishment could lead to a rise in coal prices immediately. Furthermore, increases may also arise in power tariff as a result of the country's price pass-through system.

That will mean Canada for lumber, and Latin America also has a lot of the most relevant supplies that are needed in the United States, ... There will be tariff relief.

We believe this new tariff meets all the requirements on the WTO and the Latin Americans, and will restore their access to the European market,

The problem is the environment is changing. Mobile usage is increasingly dynamic, and tariff information changes depending on where you are in the world.

Trade is complicated. It is a very detailed process, there are lots of tariff schedules and it does take time.

We believed that the system we proposed would have maintained access to our markets in a fair manner. We calculated the proposed tariff in a neutral and transparent manner, based on a comprehensive legal and economic analysis. We will now carefully study the decision before deciding how to proceed.

The decision on the tariff increase must be transparent, managerially accountable and rational.

We understand the need for predictability, and are trying to respond with our tariff plans. We have a flat rate tariff, and pre-published roaming charges.

Don't make the planned tariff hike a scapegoat for the companies managerial problems. They said they could not afford it (the hike), but actually it s because they are facing various internal problems.

The tariff issue is a bit different from that of taxes - although a tariff-free zone in cyberspace for electronic transmissions makes sense, the same is not true for taxes - there is no reason for cyberspace to be a tax haven,

The tariff for the transit of 1,000 cubic meters of gas has been raised from $1.09 to $1.6 for every 100 kilometers.

Sooner or later, the same day will come for retirees at every steel company in the United States unless our government acts quickly and decisively to end unfair trade in steel, grant maximum tariff relief to give the industry time to recover from the damage caused by illegal imports, and level the playing field with relief for the industry's legacy costs,

Our expectations are that that (EU tariff cut) figure needs to be well above 54 percent. It's a positive move in the right direction but still not enough.

As history has repeatedly proven, one trade tariff begets another, then another - until you've got a full-blown trade war. No one ever wins, and consumers always get screwed.

It's a discriminatory practice that implicates competition between the states. It would be a tariff by any other name.

That is cold-blooded, ... was all like, 'Your momma wouldn't have co-sponsored the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930.'

The Board has no plans to increase water tariff in any category till additional water supply is made available in the capital.

The U.S. estimate is based on just one tariff line when in fact there are more than 80. And there will be market access opportunities in most if not all of those tariff lines.

If I were the Prime Minister responsible for the next budget, I would introduce a maximum tariff rate that would remain stable for the whole year, thus giving a guarantee that irrespective of oil prices, the tariff will remain the same

If there's going to be retaliation, which frequently takes place in the trade world the kind of retaliation would be either tariff barriers, non-tariff barriers, or prohibitions similar to any that the Congress of the United States may choose to impose on the ports deal. How could that be good for the world's largest exporter, which is the United States, with 30 percent of our economy dependent on (international) trade?

In the UK we have a tariff that allows unlimited calls. International tariffs are more challenging, as we don't know where our costs are going to be. The costs for international roaming are difficult to predict because of different international carrier charges.

The first ruling was that (Canadian softwood producers had) an advantage, but that the 18 per cent tariff was too high. At that point, I think a deal should have been made.

The IT manufacturing industry is glad that anomalies of inverted excise tariff structure for the computer manufacturing industry has been addressed. The imposition of 12 per cent excise duty will establish a CENVAT chain for the computer manufacturing industry and will facilitate local sourcing of components like monitor, motherboard and keyboards among others.