Import Policies‚ Tariffs and Restrictions: Kenya and Vietnam Multinational Corporate Environment Southern New Hampshire University Alexis LeGrand October 2014 Import Policies‚ Tariffs and Regulations: Kenya Capitol: Nairobi Major Import Suppliers $451 Million Language: English/Swahili Population: 45‚010‚056 24% 27% Currency: Kenyan Shilling (KES) GDP (PPP): $125.7 billion Per Capita: $2‚790 92nd Largest Supplier of good imports India UAE Saudi Arabia South Africa Japan China Major Import
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Tariff Barriers to Trade Tariffs are taxes that government imposes on commodities‚ one of the methods that governments used to control economic activity. There are two identified reasons why would government impose tariffs to imported goods. Firstly‚ they are an important source of income for the government. Secondly‚ tariffs can protect the local industries that face competition from imported goods by imposing tariffs on imported goods. Tariffs are effective and widely used to protect the
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Sugar Cane Alley Sugar Cane Alley is directed by Eucha Palcy in 1983. It takes place in Martinique where the black people working at the sugarcane fields. In the movie‚ I can totally able to understand what the life of the black peoples was in 1980s. They are living under the power and authority of the white people. “The white own all the lands. The law forbids them to beating us (the blacks) but it does not force them to pay us a decent wages.” An old sugar cane worker tells a story of Africa
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Deardorff‚ A. V. and R. M. Stern (1997)‚ “Measurement of Non-Tariff Barriers”‚ OECD Economics Department Working Papers‚ No. 179‚ OECD Publishing. http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/568705648470 OECD Economics Department Working Papers No. 179 Measurement of Non-Tariff Barriers Alan V. Deardorff‚ Robert M. Stern General Distribution OCDE/GD(97)129 ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT WORKING PAPERS No. 179 MEASUREMENT OF NON-TARIFF BARRIERS by Alan V. Deardorff and Robert M. Stern University of Michigan
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Sugar was not only a stimulant to consumers but also for anyone else in the production of it‚ more and more sugar was being demanded‚ perhaps because of it accessibility or the money that came out of it. If it weren’t for producers‚ consumers‚ and entrepreneurs sugar production would not have been one of the biggest productions of a crop in the world. The organization of sugar met the needs of producers‚ because sugar production was profitable and did not consist of many owners; it met the needs
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Sugar cane is one of the oldest cultivated crops. Sugar along with honey are the oldest natural sweeteners. It is not known where sugar originated‚ but people thought it has first been used in the Polynesian Islands of the Pacific Ocean. The Polynesians fuggier out that the stalks of a giant grass‚ contained a sweet tasting liquid and could be used in the preparation of food‚ so sugar was taken from to India to other different countries to be grown and spread around the world. After that the counties
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NON-TARIFF BARRIERS TO TRADE IN THE CORE COUNTRIES OF THE STABILITY PACT FOR SOUTH EASTERN EUROPE Study prepared by Dr. Hanspeter Tschäni Dr. Laurence Wiedmer Bureau Arthur Dunkel 56‚ rue du Stand – CH - 1204 Genève Tél : +41 22 312 48 35 – Fax : +41 22 312 48 71 E-mail : sti2@iprolink.ch ABBREVIATIONS ASYCUDA Automated System for Customs Data BiH Bosnia and Herzegovina BSEC Black Sea Economic Cooperation CAFAO Customs and Fiscal Office CAM-A/CAM-ES Customs Assistance
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consumers of paper (TheDailyGreen) consequently causing a significant increase in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and destruction of forests and habitats throughout the world. In order to cope with this environmental destruction caused by tree paper production‚ we must be able to adjust to another source of paper . At Los Alamitos High School and in our school district‚ we consume a substantial amounts of paper because it is essential to handouts‚ tests‚ lab packets‚ etc. This is insignificant compared
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protection to domestic import-competing industries; a tariff or a quota. The choice between one or the other is likely to depend on several different concerns. One concern is the revenue effects. A tariff has an immediate advantage for governments in that it will automatically generate tariff revenue (assuming the tariff is not prohibitive). Quotas may or may not generate revenue depending on how the quota is administered. If a quota is administered by selling quota tickets (i.e.‚ import rights) then
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Sugar Cane Alley Sugar Cane Alley and Van Onselen’s article‚ Worker Responses in a Labor Coercive Economy‚ show the life of Africans after slavery has been abolished. Sugar Cane Alley took place in Martinique on the sugar cane fields‚ while Van Onselen’s article took place in Rhodesia in the mines. Sugar Cane Alley and Van Onselen’s article both show Africans working to make a living but not being able to fully leave because of the control of the white owners. The white owners tricked their
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