Tariff Quotations | Page 2

The IT manufacturing industry is glad that anomalies of inverted excise tariff structure for the computer manufacturing industry has been addressed. The imposition of 12 per cent excise duty will establish a CENVAT chain for the computer manufacturing industry and will facilitate local sourcing of components like monitor, motherboard and keyboards among others.

We believe this new tariff meets all the requirements on the WTO and the Latin Americans, and will restore their access to the European market,

It is lower cost for us to buy our own cranes. The port charged us a tariff for using the cranes.

It is high time that the E.U.'s internal market delivered substantially lower communications charges for consumers and business people traveling abroad. A mobile-phone customer should not be charged a higher tariff just because he -- or she -- is traveling abroad.

We believed that the system we proposed would have maintained access to our markets in a fair manner. We calculated the proposed tariff in a neutral and transparent manner, based on a comprehensive legal and economic analysis. We will now carefully study the decision before deciding how to proceed.

Every increase of protective duties is necessarily followed, in the present condition of our country, by an expansion of the currency, which must continue to increase till the increased price of production, caused by the expansion, shall be equal to the duty imposed, when a new tariff will be required.

The Board has no plans to increase water tariff in any category till additional water supply is made available in the capital.

A protective tariff is a typical conspiracy in restraint of trade.

John Quincy Adams ranks with Jimmy Carter on the roster of ex-presidential redemption. Instead of completing a biography of his father, he let himself be elected to the House, where he spent nine terms in Whiggish opposition to the Democrats, supporting a national bank and a protective tariff and internal improvements.

The tariff issue is a bit different from that of taxes - although a tariff-free zone in cyberspace for electronic transmissions makes sense, the same is not true for taxes - there is no reason for cyberspace to be a tax haven,