It takes two weeks to get a new phone connected and up to six weeks for a new tariff to take effect.

ECONOMIST: Letters

The two countries now have a month to negotiate a settlement before the proposed tariff increases go into effect.

ECONOMIST: Brazil, America and trade

Tariff escalation is, in effect, a tax on every step a country takes along the value chain.

ECONOMIST: World trade

Meanwhile, the South Asian Preferential Tariff Agreement, which took effect Dec. 8, is expected to boost trade and help hold down prices in products made in the subcontinent.

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In economic effect, a trade quota is rather like a tariff coupled with a donation of the tariff proceeds to a wealthy and politically connected foreigner.

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FTAs with the United States (although his country in effect has one, sending 1.5m barrels per day of oil tariff-free).

ECONOMIST: Latin America and the United States

Most important for investors, a new tariff system, which will see a gradual increase in electricity prices over the next two years, came into effect in June.

ECONOMIST: Reforming electricity in Nigeria

The electricity tariff cut lowered the index by 0.45%, so if one takes away the one-off effect of this cut, and maintaining all other items the same, the price index would have reached 1.13% higher month over month, or a whopping 14.44% annualized.

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