China has declared its willingness to reduce certain tariffs and eliminate an import surcharge on American products.

Thus import surcharges, also known as special tariffs.

Poland has introduced an import surcharge, and is due to announce a new set of customs duties.

In 1971, observers said Japan would not be able to cope with the damage caused to its exports by the 10 percent import surcharge imposed by President Nixon.

Import Surtaxes (Import Surcharge), also known as special tariffs, which is an extra tax after the normal import tax of imported goods levied by importing countries,.

'Mickey Mouse Money' To avert a possible balance-of-payments crisis created by a recent mild consumer boom, the Government imposed import surcharges of up to 60 percent in August.

Callaghan also found the Americans sympathetic (in contrast to the Europeans) to Labour's attempt to ease the 1964 balance of payments crisis with a temporary 15 per cent import surcharge.

Unpopular Condoms And Scare Tactics Condoms are commercially available, but a 60 percent import surcharge imposed on condoms, which are not produced locally, increases their cost to about 35 cents each.

About 25 members of the chamber came out to hear him explain that his proposed amendment to the House trade bill would authorize its import surcharge on goods from countries that restrict American products only if they refused to negotiate changes.

By December 1971, the import surcharge was dropped, as part of a general revaluation of the Group of Ten (G-10) currencies, which under the Smithsonian Agreement were thereafter allowed 2.25% devaluations from the agreed exchange rate.

But experts note that if Canada tears up the agreement and then asks the United States for favors - as in 1971 when it sought and immediately received exemption from a 10 percent import surcharge - Ottawa may have a long wait.

He served on the president's Council of Economic Advisers from 1971 to 1973, when the Nixon administration suspended the dollar's convertibility into gold and imposed an import surcharge and wage and price controls to try to recast the international financial system.

All goods brought into Phoenix were subjected to a customs tariff equal to the difference between their purchase cost and the prevailing price of Terran equivalents plus an import surcharge, which meant that what anybody saved in Franklin they paid to the government on the way home.

Mr. Mosquera said a move to impose a Federal import surcharge on Colombian flowers, after a finding that Colombia was "dumping" them in the United States at below fair market value, could put a serious dent in the country's $200 million-a-year trade in cut flowers.