Income taxes are more efficient than customs duties, but require a bigger initial bureaucracy.
However, the government has recently strengthened its tax system to reduce dependency on customs duties.
Signatories to this UNESCO treaty agree not to impose customs duties on certain educational, scientific, and cultural materials that are imported.
But many exemptions remain, preventing customs duties and regulations from applying to all products traded among the three countries.
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Currently, electronics and other finishing touches are installed in Hong Kong, which means the yachts incur customs duties for Chinese buyers.
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To help them, Mr Vajpayee has offered to cut the excise and customs duties on information-technology-related equipment to close to zero.
Other state-backed bodies have been crony-ridden and ineffective except as ways to evade taxes and customs duties on imports such as alcohol.
Import quotas have largely been replaced with customs duties, and subsidies, tax breaks and other special favours for farmers scaled back.
After the latest round of reductions on Oct. 1, average customs duties stand at 17%, down from 43% five years ago.
More important, high customs duties and soak-the-Chinese pricing strategies have inflated prices.
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At stake are millions of dollars earned by the regional government in customs duties levied on goods entering Afghanistan from neighbouring Iran and Turkmenistan.
The Georgians seem content to keep customs duties to a minimum.
If China decided to relax its customs duties, this could result in Estee Lauder gaining close to 8% market share of global skin care by 2012.
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Under an agreement between Kabul and Washington, the U.S. military can bring equipment in and out of Afghanistan without being subject to taxes or customs duties.
Middle Eastern governments, which generally have a hard time persuading their citizens to pay their taxes, tend to rely disproportionately on customs duties as a source of revenue.
As of today, China slaps excessive customs duties on imported products, especially branded consumer goods, which end up making them almost 50% dearer than those available in overseas markets.
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The customs duties leviable on goods destined for the interior shall be collected at the port of entry and handed over to the administration of the area of destination.
Next year the central Bosnian state, as opposed to its two main entities, will begin collecting customs duties and preparing to do the same for value-added tax from 2006.
Input data on, say, sales and demand for Palms, and SimFlex factors in Customs duties and tax policies to help choose where to have products made and how to ship them.
Small, landlocked, and mountainous, Lesotho relies on remittances from Basotho employed in South Africa, customs duties from the Southern Africa Customs Union (SACU), and export revenue for the majority of government revenue.
Input data on, say, sales and demand for Palms and SimFlex factors in customs duties and currency issues to help customers choose where to have their products made and how to ship them.
"For example products originating in Turkey, Mediterranean countries like Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, or some countries in South and Central America, may benefit from an exemption of customs duties or reduced duties, " he says.
Mr Hutchinson produced a slide of a handwritten document which he said was a receipt that Taleban tax collectors had given to a drugs trafficker, acknowledging that customs duties had been paid on a four kilogram shipment.
The trade agreement - which will lead to a gradual removal of customs duties on exports and imports - was signed earlier this year but needs to be ratified by the European Parliament before it can take effect.
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Reacting to Mr Chidambaram's budget, Mr Singh described it as "anti-inflationary", voicing hopes that proposed reductions in customs and excise duties would reduce higher prices.
The OTS's remit covers UK taxes and duties administered by HM Revenue and Customs, but it will not deal with tax credits or taxes administered by other bodies nor will it have any influence on setting tax rates.
And when the center supplied computers to various teams, some got stuck in customs because no one had checked up on import duties.
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Lukashenko has argued that, because of the customs union relations Belarus has with Russia, it should not have to pay duties on Russian energy exports and should have a favorable price for natural gas.
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