The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.
Alan Keyes
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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.
Industry Minister Fahmi Idris
Strict control over tariff growth ahead of the elections will lead to accelerated price growth in 2009.
Natalya Orlova
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.
Stephen Adams
Our job is to break down those barriers -- whether they are tariff or non-tariff barriers -- because it is essential to our continued economic growth and prosperity.
Jim Mendenhall
It is lower cost for us to buy our own cranes. The port charged us a tariff for using the cranes.
Bob Watters
I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.
William Mckinley
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.
Mark Whitby
I don't think that you will find that you can get cement at the spot prices that you could before. However, at the 15 per cent tariff there is cement out there that will be competitive in this market, but when it gets into the market, market forces will take over and we are prepared to defend our market.
Anthony Haynes
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.
Andy Kerr
Our companies have monopoly status, which does not let them implement flexible tariff policy. And eventually it will affect their business efficiency.
Valery Yashin
We are not afraid of price war. I've learned a lot from last year and we know how to balance between market share and tariff.
Sigve Brekke
I am worried about non-tariff barriers that India puts against import of Bangladeshi merchandise.
Mir Nasir Hossain
It's a discriminatory practice that implicates competition between the states. It would be a tariff by any other name.
Peter Enrich
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.
Mark Vaile
Canada would benefit from a fresh dose of competition. Although tariffs on goods are declining, the list of non-tariff barriers is daunting. The primary impact of these barriers is to raise costs, which reduces the competitiveness of Canadian firms. This is not a federal versus provincial issue ? all governments are responsible for maintaining barriers.
Paul Darby
For most consumer goods, that brings down the tariff rate to about 8.4 percent, which is a 10 percent drop in tariff revenues and the government cannot afford that.
Lal De Mel
The IT manufacturing industry is glad that anomalies of inverted excise tariff structure for the computer manufacturing industry have been addressed. It will also encourage manufacturing of high-end products such as notebooks and servers.
Vinnie Mehta
Tariff controls are affecting some companies and that's one of the reasons behind the fall of the index. I'm sure at some point those tariff freezes will have to be adjusted.
Nelson Ortiz
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.
Joanne Shore
The steel tariff cost more jobs than it saved and I'm sure this Chinese bra ban will also contribute to net job losses.
Paul Kasriel
Billing for data services is generally going to be more complex than the straightforward [wireless] tariff plans we've had so far.
Donna Rowlands
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.
Gary Hufbauer
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.
Oleksiy Ivchenko
Despite our efforts, we were not able to come to an agreement with our partners. Nor did they present an alternative proposal of their own. Time is now running out for the introduction of the tariff-only regime by the beginning of next year. This is why we are requesting a second round of arbitration today.
Mariann Fischer Boel
Most Chinese enterprises failed to enjoy this tariff cutting policy simply because they do not know about the FTA and related articles.
Xu Ningning
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.
Will Martin
The problem is the environment is changing. Mobile usage is increasingly dynamic, and tariff information changes depending on where you are in the world.
Rip Gerber
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.
Mike Short
I think they can move beyond where we are today ... I still think it's possible to finalize specifics -- tariff cuts, domestic support cuts, market access gains -- parameters of a possible way to move forward. There's a lot of work to be done, but flexibility on the part of the U.S., EU and the developing countries is still achievable.
Audrae Erickson
The main thrust that we want and that we were after is not the right to retaliate. The main thrust has always been respect for the NAFTA, i.e. repeal the [tariff] orders and return the deposits.
Jim Peterson
We want such non tariff barriers removed.
Tuly Cooray
One thing the government could do would be to increase the amount of butter that could be imported without tariff, and that would provide ice cream producers and other users some additional supplies of butter.
Keith Collins
The [high] price [on natural gas] has created a current catastrophic situation in the Ukrainian economy, and leaves us no prospects for the economic growth. A single energy tariff would be used within the framework of the common economic space, and would be much lower than today's price on natural gas.
Yevgeniy Kushnarev
The decision on the tariff increase must be transparent, managerially accountable and rational.
Industry Minister Fahmi Idris
(PNTR) will keep our credit relationships stable. Everyone won't have to worry if the tariff rate will be different.
Zhang Yuanyuan
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