That Council has doubled tariffs in the east.

So Philips must hit even its own partner, Sony, with a double tariff.

Meanwhile, Moscow has imposed double tariffs, through the next two years, on goods that are shipped to and from Russia using non-Russian ports, making the use of Russia's commercial railways an expensive proposition.

The community's commission said it would also double tariffs on imports of Japanese television sets, portable computers and machine tools if it finds that Japan has redirected their import from the United States to Europe.

The fact that we simply authorised the addition of this tariff charge to the existing surcharge, decided in 2006 to fund the great tunnels through the Alps, amounts to a double tariff charge and this is an obstacle to achieving a single market in my opinion.

However, in 1667 this was followed with a much more draconian list that doubled tariffs on Dutch fine cloth, linen, and Delftware; quadrupled them on whale products (for which France was Holland's biggest customer); and raised them sevenfold for tobacco products.