Russia can be expected to exact a steep price in transit fees and pilotage.

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India is short of energy and Pakistan stands to benefit from hundreds of millions of dollars in transit fees.

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In the negotiations over reopening the border, the Pakistanis have asked the U.S. to pay customary cross-border transit fees in advance.

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Tajikistan's main lifeline to the outside world, the train to Russia, has stopped running because the country cannot pay the transit fees.

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Riskier, perhaps, is Pakistan's fallback: to bring the gas down the Himalayas into China, since Islamabad gets transit fees regardless of where the pipeline ends.

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Riskier, perhaps, is Pakistan's fall-back: to bring the oil down the Himalayas into China, since Islamabad gets transit fees regardless of where the pipeline ends.

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They have never agreed on the transit fees that Juba should pay Khartoum for pumping oil through its pipelines and using Sudan's oil export infrastructure.

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If this timetable is respected, Sudan's economy should benefit from billions of dollars coming from oil transit fees, and from a compensatory payment for allowing the South to secede, he says.

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In February the Juba government cut off the oil in protest at high transit fees, depriving both countries of revenue they desperately need and helping to cause a global oil-price spike.

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Third, to the extent that the fees push commuters to switch from cars to mass transit, they will spread subway and bus costs over more users, thus helping to keep down fare increases.

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