High import duties on e-readers and tablets represent one of the most significant obstacles to this progress.
«The poor performance of industry and the business sector in general, could also be attributed to other challenges they faced, including, but not limited to, lack of access to finance, high interest rates, an unstable exchange rate,
high import duties on raw materials and machinery, poor facilitation of import and export trade, particularly at our ports, inadequate and poor quality of raw materials for industrial processing, a poorly developed domestic trade infrastructure, lack of effective collaboration between research institutions and industry, limited access to serviced land for industrial production activities and poor standards of regulation and certification.»
Also,
high import duties on CBUs has led to the higher price of already expensive iPhones.
Previously, Trump approved
higher import duties on Chinese - made washing machines and solar modules to offset what Washington said were improper subsidies.
China lists $ 3 billion in U.S. goods including pork and aluminum pipe to maybe face higher tariffs in response to President Donald Trump's
higher import duties on steel and aluminum.
Not exact matches
Aluminum products maker Arconic slashed its 2018 forecasts for profit and free cash flow as it expects prices of the metal to remain
high this year due to sanctions
on Russian supplies and a 10 percent
duty on aluminum
imports.
April 30 (Reuters)- Aluminum products maker Arconic Inc slashed its 2018 forecasts for profit and free cash flow
on expectations that the price of the metal would remain
high this year due to sanctions
on Russian supplies and a 10 percent
duty on aluminum
imports.
The meeting was held before Trump instructed officials to consider tariffs
on an additional $ 100 billion in Chinese
imports, bringing the value of the nation's products set for
higher duties to about $ 150 billion.
Aluminum products maker Arconic Inc slashed its 2018 forecasts for profit and free cash flow
on expectations that the price of the metal would remain
high this year due to sanctions
on Russian supplies and a 10 percent
duty on aluminum
imports.
The Commerce Ministry called
on Washington to negotiate a settlement to the conflict over
higher U.S.
import duties on steel and aluminum but set no deadline.
There will be some short - term benefit to U.S. module makers from
import duties on solar, but it is not clear that this will offset lower levels of deployment incurred by both the
higher price of
imported solar and the uncertainty created by the Section 201 process.
This is compounded by the
high taxes,
duties and tariffs
on imported wine into Australia.
To give an example, the average
duty on meat
imports could be as
high as 27 per cent, while clothing and footwear would attract tariffs of 11 - 16 per cent, whereas at the moment there is a zero - rating for all EU
imports.
President - elect Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo further pledged to reduce the tax burden
on the private sector through lower corporate tax and the removal of
import duties and VAT from some items while relying
on revenue measures such as improving tax compliance, improving the quality of public finance administration and
higher oil and gas production to finance these tax cuts.
The pricing seems to be
on the
higher side and if an individual plans to
import it, pay the government CBU
duty, he will still have left over change to get himself a Suzuki Hayabusa.
Weaker economies / currencies in China, Russia, Greece & Turkey, plus the new Chinese
import duties, continue to exert a negative influence — but the real culprit here was last year's substantial step - up in Chinese & Western production, based
on a cold Chinese winter,
higher spring - 2015 pelt prices, a weaker euro & excellent breeding conditions.
A government recommendation to impose a
high safeguard
duty on the
import of solar photovoltaic cells, modules and panels has become contentious within the booming sector
The customers today are unforgiving and factors like
higher costs for newer SoCs and other hardware components, inflation in general or even aspects like
higher import duties levied are seldom understood before a judgement is passed that the brand is not standing true to the value which in the first place attracted a customer
on board.