31.   High prices are due in part to the heavy import tax on foreign liquor in China.

32.   Import taxes often go unpaid because smugglers have take contraband overland from the provinces, where customs houses are severely understaffed.

33.   Import taxes, utility rates and an excise tax on cars and liquor also will go up.

34.   Indonesia says it is continuing with measures to deregulate its economy by slashing and abolishing import taxes.

35.   In the United States, there would be no import tax at all.

36.   Italian tax police have uncovered an international ring they say falsified documents on shipments of tons of silver ignots to evade paying higher import taxes.

37.   Jongkie said if the government dropped the import tax dramatically, importing cars would be a better choice than building them here.

38.   Some are commercial shipments that went unclaimed in Customs warehouses or were seized because buyers failed to pay import taxes.

39.   Soybeans and soybean oil also advanced on talk China has sharply reduced import taxes, which would encourage new Chinese purchases of soybean oil.

40.   Soybeans futures also were boosted by news that China had lifted its import taxes on vegetable oil imports.