Increased import duty on high-end luxury motor vehicles and yachts.
But, on balance, Ms Zheng calculates that the boost to exports from a 12-15% devaluation might deliver an extra 1.1% of growth, even if offset against increased import and debt-service costs.
Ltd. said the company will later Monday announce the revised prices of its vehicles which will incorporate the increased factory and import taxes.
Import volumes increased by 8 million barrels, to 290.67 million barrels from 282.58 million.
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U.S. import prices increased 1.1% in December, just below the 1.2% expected.
There was only one low level report scheduled from the euro area today and that was German Import Prices which increased to a growth rate of 0.6% on a month-over month basis.
Although India has broadly cut import duties and increased foreign-ownership limits over the past ten years, large sections of the economy remain sheltered by high tariffs and restrictions on foreign direct investment, which amounts to just 0.7 percent of India's GDP, compared with 4.2 percent in China and 3.2 percent in Brazil.
Over the weekend, it also increased the base rate for calculating import taxes on the precious metal, another measure to make imports costlier and bring down demand.
That is precisely what would be involved in an internationally syndicated fund to backstop ruble convertibility or to meet balance of payments requirements such as providing a cushion for increased Soviet unemployment and a food-import scheme.
The fact that a 21 percent increase in the value of the Yuan was met with a 38.7 percent increase in import value means that the quantity of Chinese imports demanded increased by nearly 15 percent after the price change.
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Under the deal that has been struck, the EU will keep its ban on hormone-treated beef, but the import quota levels for non-hormone treated beef would be increased, giving greater access to the EU market for exporters in the US and Canada.
We continue to import more goods and services than we export, and that gap increased in the 1st quarter.
Mr Sinha has imposed a flat 8% import-duty surcharge (with some exemptions), and has increased duties still further on several items, such as copper.
There currently appears to be sufficient supply of non-Iranian oil to permit foreign countries to significantly reduce their import of Iranian oil, taking into account current estimates of demand, increased production by countries other than Iran, inventories of crude oil and petroleum products, and available strategic petroleum reserves.
But the pipeline that took Turkmen energy supplies to Russia ruptured in April 2009, after Moscow failed to tell Ashgabat that it had significantly lowered its import level of natural gas, causing the pipeline to explode due to the increased pressure.
Met coal imports increased by whopping 175%, making 43.6 million tons of the 140 million tons of total import.
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