Indeed, 80% of all import levies are paid by the developing countries combined.

The sanctions could include higher import levies and partial or total bans.

Import levies are applied to specified goods imported into the EU.

It is precisely developing countries that stand to benefit from a favourable investment climate, reduction in import levies and transparent legislation.

Those for live cattle should be abolished altogether, certainly when these are exported to countries that are exempt from EU import levies.

Maize gluten from the US is exempt from import levies, but maize germ is not.

Also, GATT requires the dismantling of the system of import levies and export subsidies.

In the share offering prospectus, the company says it intends to increase domestic component content to more than 60 percent by the end of 1994, thereby lowering import levies to 80 percent.

Malta is doing well in this field, with regard both to phasing out import levies on finished products by 2003 and abolishing the remaining capital controls by the end of 2002.

It is promising that last week, a compromise was reached about import levies on agricultural products and that with it, an impending failure of the Doha Round was warded off.

Then there is the abolition of import levies and non-tariff barriers to trade, Madam President, and in our strategy on market access it is also important to prioritise these emerging markets.

However, we are hugely vexed by the fact that Europe continues to insist on high import levies on agricultural and textile products, while an agreement on a gradual cutback had, in fact, been reached.

Because of import levies and high prices, the European Community is one of the world's leading sugar exporters, to the dismay of the Philippines and Caribbean countries that are dependent on sugar.

This derives from the proceeds of the Common External Tariff and agricultural import levies, a VAT component and a resource based upon the gross national products of the Member States.

The translation of linear import levies into common percentage-based tariffs, based on the value of the products, is a careful, but nevertheless, important step in the direction of a blanket agreement on trade in agricultural products.

I certainly agree that the decisions need not be made until later, but I do believe that now is the time to think about what we do if international agreements do not materialise. Will there then be import levies?

Plan B would be to set worldwide targets for reductions in every sector of industry, and if that does not work plan C would be to slap import levies on products from countries that refuse to implement the climate policy.

His nutty solution: to stop Americans from importing so many Armanis and Toyotas, and American companies from sending their products abroad, erect a 19th-century-style tariff wall around the United States by, among other things, raising existing import levies fivefold.

The Chinese build a new coal power station every few weeks to provide the energy for factories to supply our cheap imports, if everyone stopped buying then great, but why can't western governments impose import levies to make sure people have a disincentive, then its guaranteed to work.

A multilateral approach to this problem is required, whilst nothing is stopping the developing countries from adopting a sound agricultural policy, that is to say preventing or restricting, by means of import levies, the import of these cheap products at the expense of their own agriculture.

The principles agreed at its inception continue to govern the CAP today: farm product prices are determined annually and maintained by intervention and export subsidies; protection from external produce is operated by variable import levies; and financial responsibility is implemented through the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund.