11.   But regional trade agreements may simply divert trade away from efficient producing countries to those that merely happen to enjoy lower tariff barriers.

12.   But the United States can make the compelling argument that Japanese behavior over three decades effectively nullified its promise to lower tariffs and other trade barriers.

13.   By U.S. law, the president has to find money in the Budget to offset any drop in revenues that result from lower tariffs.

14.   China needs U.S. support to gain admission to the worldwide system of lower tariffs.

15.   Farmers and equipment makers want lower tariffs on American grain.

16.   Government planners attributed the customs shortfall to slower import growth, lower tariff rates in compliance with trade liberalization agreements and a higher share of non-dutiable imports.

17.   He has employed imaginative and unorthodox policies, including a multiple currency exchange system to benefit exporters and lower tariffs on capital goods to help manufacturers.

18.   He also called for lower tariffs on pharmaceutical products.

19.   Hebebrand said the EC had imposed other sanctions on Burma such as revoking its rights to lower tariffs when selling to industrialized nation.

20.   Hogs rose amid speculation that a Japanese decision to lower tariffs on pork imports could soon lead to increased purchases of U.S. meat.