The commission was created in 1946 to control the market for whale oil and later took on the duty of protecting whales from being hunted to extinction.

该委员会成立于1946年，以控制鲸油市场为目的，后来担负起保护鲸类不被捕杀灭绝的责任。

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A few other taxes might also be devolved (mostly minor ones, such as air-passenger duty, and explicitly not big earners such as corporation tax or North Sea oil and gas levies).

一些其他税收也可能下放，不过主要都是次要的税收，如飞机旅客税，以及其他显然的非纳税大户，如企业税和北海石油天然气税。

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Oil record book is kept by chief engineer. As demand, duty engineer fill in oil record book faithfully and detailed, heed the procedure.

所填写的要求，由值班轮机员将每项作业如实详细地填入《油类记录簿》中要注意记载程序。

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Mr Lukashenka has also sabotaged the customs union with Kazakhstan and Russia, demanding that Russia scrap its export duty on oil and oil products, which would allow Belarus to buy them at Russia's domestic prices and to re-export them at a profit. (Russia wants to keep oil out of the union for now.) Russia's response is to reach for its favourite weapon: the gas taps.

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To offset their losses, the government has also agreed to cut the import duty on crude oil.

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The last Labour government often postponed planned duty increases when world oil prices were on the up - as they are now.

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