He wants to double the capital-export tax to 2%, and to increase corporate taxes.
But the battle over export tax breaks is not the only transatlantic tiff.
When Russia increased its timber export tax from 5 percent to 25 percent, though, China was forced to look elsewhere.
And Brazil has just slapped a 150% export tax on guns to try to stop them being smuggled back from Paraguay.
China's "Torch" program fast-tracks industries, attracting entrepreneurs with offers of cheap land for factories, export tax breaks and even a free apartment for three years.
Now it has to pay 9% export tax in two provinces, a prelude, thinks Mr Shotoku, for the tax being levied by other provincial governments too.
Mr Thornton added that "there is plenty of anecdotal evidence to suggest that exporters are faking orders and 'round-tripping' in order to gain government export tax rebates".
BBC: China's March trade deficit may signal key import shift
In 2006, then president Nestor Kirchner announced a 180-day export ban as well as an export tax hike from 5% to 15% for all beef products.
FORBES: Best Steaks Coming Your Way: Beleaguered Argentine Beef Industry Set To Rebound
Moscow's flexing of its muscles in the energy sector - which saw state-owned firm Gazprom temporarily cut off gas supplies to neighbouring Ukraine - as well as new rules for the foreign ownership of Russian companies and export tax rises, all have implications for BP.
The World Trade Organization has ruled that our tax export subsidies--known as Foreign Sales Corporation and Extraterritorial Income Exclusion provisions--are illegal.
It has long been evident that Pakistan needs to export more, improve tax collection and pursue bank-loan defaulters.
Earlier this month, the front took aim at a decree which eases export taxes but leaves tax deadlines unaltered.
Last July it said it would exempt remote services' export earnings from corporate tax, putting the business on the same footing as software.
Russian stockmarkets took fright when Vladimir Putin, the prime minister, attacked the tax record and export practices of Mechel , a big mining company.
New research by Mihir Desai of Harvard University and James Hines of the University of Michigan examines the perverse fusion of export incentives and corporate income tax in America.
Real state revenue fell in the last two quarters for the first time since 2003, despite a sharp increase in tax receipts from export industries booming on the back of the weak dollar.
ECONOMIST: State fiscal crises may deepen America's downturn
The line-up this year: Credit and housing markets, export growth, health care, tax policy, infrastructure, alternative energy and improving economic statistics.
FORBES: White House Report Says Economy Will Rebound In 2008
It's no accident that Ireland, with its 12.5% corporate tax rate that has attracted export businesses, is climbing out of its debt hole faster than are Portugal, Spain or Greece.
Guided by a radical theory know as Capital Export Neutrality, the OECD wants to impose global tax rules that would prevent taxpayers from ever having the ability to benefit from better tax law in other jurisdictions.
FORBES: With Obama's Help, OECD Wants A World Tax Organization
This tax benefit is for small and medium manufacturers who export but also for businesses who manufacture a part, for example, an engine that goes on a plane that is exported.
FORBES: Fiscal Cliff Tax Deal: What Does It Mean for Small Business?
The government also sought to boost the domestic economy by accelerating infrastructure programs, offering corporate tax breaks for employers to retain workers, and expanding export credit facilities.
Land will often be provided by state governments at concessionary rates, and both developers and operating units can receive tax breaks for up to 15 years, provided they are export-oriented.
One plan involves lobbying the central government to deregulate airfares so that the local tourist industry can take off. (Just see what Hawaii has done since American air fares were deregulated.) Another proposal is to provide tax breaks for manufacturers who import components and then re-export the finished goods.
But transatlantic disputes still rage over the tax code of America's exporters and the genetic code of its export crops.
Countries including France, New Zealand and Sweden offered additional programs such as tax exemptions and deferments, credit mediation, business advice programs or various export guarantees.
"There was a submarine cable laid between Singapore and India which probably had quite an effect, and export processing zones were redesignated so there would have been some industrial investment due to tax breaks, " he said.
The Republic's own export sector is growing but its domestic market remains weak as consumers deal with debts, tax rises and spending cuts.
Export subsidies in general tend to be regressive, since they take money from broad-based tax revenues and give it to corporate shareholders.
应用推荐