1.   The budget also sharply raised the duty on alcohol and tobacco.

2.   He cited benefits that Scotland had received from the Budget such as the decision not to raise the duty on whisky and the North Sea measures.

3.   Although Washington lifted the measure two years later, the U.S threatened to raise duties on those imports several times afterwards.

4.   Clinton imposed the increased tariffs under a Nafta provision that also gives Mexico the right to raise duties on U.S.-made products as compensation.

5.   Construction companies may fall, after the government raised import duties on heavy construction equipment.

6.   Despite its recession, Mexico honored its NAFTA commitments to cut tariffs on U.S. products even as it raised duties on goods from non-NAFTA trading partners.

7.   It has temporarily raised import duties on inexpensive Chinese leeks, shiitake mushrooms and rushes used to make tatami mats for home use.

8.   That included raising import duties on sponge iron to make domestic producers more competitive against imports and lowering of a basic tax on some public works related industries.

9.   The danger is that excise duties could be raised so high that consumption will be slowed, reducing the tax bite in absolute terms, analysts say.

10.   Gryzlov also suggested raising the duty paid by Russian companies who hire foreigners, ITAR-Tass said.