Translation of "Zollsenkung" in English

In some cases, the reduction in customs duties was excessive.

Besides, dollar area bananas also rely on a heavy reduction in duties.

The LDCs are exempt from this tariff reduction.

For wine, the tariff reduction was made subject to observance of the reference price.

In short term, tariff reduction can address the problem that exports to China are stagnating.

The Commission has reduced tariffs on Thai prawns from 12% to 4.2%.

Critics claim that the reduced tariffs on Thai prawns are contrary to the Council's agreement.

The LDCs are explicitly exempted from tariff cuts.

Products originating in Malta and Cyprus are accorded a 70 % cut in CCT rates, Spain 60 %, and Israel 50 %.

Secondly, the Commission had no other choice but to agree to negotiate a tariff reduction agreement with the countries competing with the banana-exporting ACP countries.

The Ghanaian Party may take safeguard measures where a product originating in the EC Party as a result of the reduction of duties is being imported into its territory in such increased quantities and under such conditions as to cause or threaten to cause disturbances to an infant industry producing like or directly competitive products.

The reduced customs duty under Article 1 shall apply subject to the presentation, upon the entry of the rice into free circulation, of a transport document and EUR.1 movement certificate in accordance with Protocol 4 of the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement, issued in Egypt and relating to the consignments in question.

Further conflicts are to be expected, however, because the Latin American countries have demanded a significantly greater reduction in customs duties.

Products listed in Annex I for which an import licence with an exemption from, or a reduction of duty, was issued before the date of entry into force of this Regulation shall not be subject to the additional duty.

The situation was such that, when we started negotiating the cooperation and trade agreement with South Africa, we had to accept - and did - that the principles of 'stand still' and 'roll back' - traditionally sacrosanct principles in negotiations and free trade agreements - could be subject to a number of exemptions in the case of South Africa, so as to take account of the unusually large reduction in customs duties on certain South African products and, specifically, on goods such as canned fruit and vegetables.

In the 60s, at the same time as introducing the common external tariff, we also adopted, in the various Kennedy Rounds and others, a consistent policy worldwide of reducing tariffs and opening up markets.

Instead of reducing and abolishing duties, you, Commissioner Mandelson, need to propose to the WTO that it reduce duties. In this way, the importer would make a customs credit – a kind of economic drawing on the importer’s economy - available to the exporter.

This amounts to saying – and this is my fifth and final point – that the road to a reduction in customs duties is a dead end that should be consigned to the past.

I am thus talking about opening our markets to each other, reducing quotas, lowering customs duties, which will lead to a win-win situation on both sides.

Alcohol imports from third countries are finding it increasingly easy to gain access to the EU market due to new openings arising from preferential systems, GATT tariff-cutting agreements or bilateral negotiations with specific third countries that produce a large amount of alcohol.

For all these reasons, the Committee on Agriculture feels a report assessing the consequences of tariff reductions further to the Everything But Arms initiative should be prepared as a mater of urgency. Such a report must also take account of our concerns and of the economies of third countries.

It was originally planned to introduce the reduced tariffs on 1 July 2005 but the date was brought forward to 1 April as a result of the devastating tsunami.