21.   A decline in import duties in the past three years have also helped boost imports.

22.   A decline in import duties in the past three years have also helped increase the flow of imports.

23.   A new intellectual-property law and lower import duties helped win the country admittance to the World Trade Organization.

24.   After being tested successfully on a pig, the device was sent to Coetzee in exile in Zambia, but he refused to pay the import duty.

25.   Building handsets in Brazil helps the companies avoid substantial import duties on high-tech items.

26.   But shipping costs and United States import duty make this an expensive proposition.

27.   Chinese customs are targeting smuggled wool, which remains a problem now that companies are ineligible for tax rebates and must pay import duties.

28.   Cardoso has said that Brazilian exports headed for the U.S., including orange juice and steel products, face high import duties and taxes.

29.   China is lowering import duties in a bid to win entry to the World Trade Organization, which governs global commerce.

30.   Choosing to import his chefs rather than more pasta was one way he protected himself from mounting import duties.