The problem, one regularly ignored by those who believe that monetary debasement is the path to prosperity, is that the foreign importer can ultimately only import if it's exporting first.
The tunnels are the only way to import goods into the territory.
That's a good start, but it's a move of symbolic import only.
For example, production of an iPhone is spread across several countries yet in U.S. trade statistics it counts as an import only from China.
Only small amounts of the tender so far have been procured, meaning NTPC was only able to import 9 million tons of coal in the year to end-March, short of its 16-million-ton target.
The other is a tropical import that only became a Swiss speciality after the Industrial Revolution.
Last year's rise in import duty only had a temporary impact on demand, and some analysts said the latest move would have little effect.
Colombia is already seeing rapid growth in demand for Scotch, and removal of 15% import duty can only help.
The regulators would only have the technical capacity to import and process 1 trading day at a time.
You needed only the right connections for an import license.
But increasingly, car makers are making investments to assemble some units within India in an attempt to reduce the taxes as there is only a 10% tax on import of automobile parts.
It's been a few months since the International Trade Commission affirmed its decision to ban a selection of Motorola's Android portfolio from import, but the ruling will only start in earnest from today.
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Oil accounts for 30% of India's import bill, but the country produces only 25% of its domestic requirement.
The import duty is also expected to have only a negligible impact.
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In the year to May, says Michael Rosenberg, chief currency strategist at Deutsche Bank, import prices to America, excluding oil, rose only 0.9%, even though the trade-weighted dollar fell by 6%.
New import restrictions mean that companies are allowed to bring in only the same volume of goods as they export.
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Oil -- which China has had to import since 1993, and which the area may contain -- seems only a small part of the reason.
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.
The first phase of the solar mission stipulated that solar farm operators using silicon wafers should only buy made-in-India versions of this equipment but allowed them to import other forms of technology, including thin-film cells.
Economists reckon that in the 1990s only about half of an exchange-rate change had worked its way through to manufacturing import prices after a year.
Having any sort of import tariffs seems insane to me but having them not on assembled boards but only on components seems even more stupid than merely being insane.
Despite their proximity and the absence of a language barrier -- Hindustani, an amalgam of Hindi and Urdu, is understood by both north Indians and Pakistanis -- only 1.2% of Pakistan's exports go to India, while the import tally is a mere 0.7%.
"I import product from the EU. I have never seen or handled equine product, my company only deals in beef and pork, " he said.
Roma had hoped to import the philosophy when it hired Luis Enrique who, like Guardiola, had played for Barcelona and only ever managed Barcelona B.
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