21.   A senior Japanese official said this was because Japan already had very low tariff rates.

22.   Actually, MFN simply allows Chinese goods to enter the country at the same bottom-line tariff rates the United States extends to all its major trading partners.

23.   An inter-agency team will travel soon to Vietnam to negotiate a trade agreement, which would then lead to the granting of normal tariff rates for Vietnamese products.

24.   Campipointed out that any increase in tariff rates at this time was very untimely and would mean anincrease in production costand increase in selling prices of vehicles.

25.   Chinese MFN status, which allows it to receive preferential tariff rates, has been formally delinked from human rights concerns by the Clinton administration.

26.   China has pledged to gradually reduce tariff rates and remove other import barriers as part of its bid to join the World Trade Organization.

27.   Debt repayment is dependent on its cash generation which is subject to tariff rates, volumes and its ability to reduce costs.

28.   Earlier, Maskhadov had accused Moscow of duplicity in the negotiations over pipeline tariff rates, and oil company head Khozhakhmed Yarikhanov said the Russians were guilty of blackmail.

29.   Earlier, Maskhadov had accused Moscow of duplicity in the negotiations over pipeline tariff rates, and a Chechen oil company head said the Russians were guilty of blackmail.

30.   Enrile also proposed a revision of tariff rates in the country.