The country has struggled with inflation, a lot of it imported from high commodity prices.
"At the moment, there is only high-end imported furniture and very low-end things that are made there, " Ross said.
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But the free-trade area is riddled with exemptions: big markets such as Malaysia and Vietnam maintain high tariffs on imported cars.
Farmers resented having to pay higher prices for imported goods, because of high tariffs that were the principal source of federal revenue.
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Expanding vertically over the past 20 years and with high prices on imported products, Tokyo also serves up some seriously expensive sushi.
"High levels of imported emissions reflect the need for emissions reductions in other countries if climate objectives are to be achieved, " he said.
India's airlines struggle to make a profit, mostly because of high costs of imported jet fuel, said Kapil Kaul, an analyst at the India office of Sydney-based CAPA-Centre for Aviation.
It contained plenty to make the middle classes happy, including cuts in the overly-high levels of duty levied on imported liquor and cars, as well as, more usefully, on information-technology products.
Locals balked at high prices and, initially, at imported control-freakery that dampened the Caribbean spirit.
It is noticeable that a high share of the new consumer desirables is imported.
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To meet a high domestic demand, more raw materials may be imported to the United States.
As these taxes are levied on imported products on top of any tariffs, it causes the high-street prices to skyrocket.
Most of the people selling imported consumer goods in Russia learnt their trade at a time of high inflation and a rudimentary banking system.
In Bulgaria, the government said that DNA tests conducted in Germany had found imported frozen dishes being sold in a supermarket chain to be as high as 80 percent horse meat.
In some products, such as smart phones and high tech gadgets, upwards of 95 percent of the value is imported.
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The country did have high tariff barriers in the 19th century, but it also cheerfully imported foreign capital and labour to finance and build the westward expansion.
The road was more than 1.5m (5ft) high and 6m (19.5ft) wide, and surfaced with imported river cobbles.
The Renewable Fuel Standard currently requires transportation fuel to contain certain amounts of renewables such as corn grain ethanol regardless of how high it pushes corn prices or how much weather conditions or tariffs on imported ethanol have reduced supplies.
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