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IMPORT BARRIER [2 records]

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Record 1 2025-08-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Foreign Trade
  • Domestic Trade
  • Customs and Excise
CONT

Provinces have the autonomy to act unilaterally, allowing their residents and businesses greater freedom to source goods and services from across the country. They can choose to reduce or eliminate barriers to imports from other provinces, thereby avoiding unnecessary costs.

OBS

import barrier; barrier to imports : designations usually used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • import barriers
  • barriers to imports

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commerce extérieur
  • Commerce intérieur
  • Douanes et accise
CONT

Les accords commerciaux réduisent souvent les obstacles à l'importation, suscitant une concurrence accrue sur le marché intérieur.

OBS

Exemples d'obstacles à l'importation : des mesures tarifaires ou non tarifaires sur des biens ou des services qui sont imposées par un pays ou une province à l'importation.

OBS

obstacle à l'importation; barrière à l'importation : désignations habituellement utilisées au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • obstacles à l'importation
  • barrières à l'importation

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Comercio exterior
  • Comercio interno
  • Aduana e impuestos internos
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Record 2 1995-01-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Foreign Trade
CONT

The imbalance between the United States and Japan has been popularly attributed to several irrelevant or unprovable causes, such as high levels of protection, intangible barriers to imports, or abnormal or unusual trade patterns

Key term(s)
  • intangible import barrier

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commerce extérieur
CONT

Le déséquilibre commercial entre les États-Unis et le Japon est imputé à diverses causes sans rapport avec lui ou impossibles à prouver, telles que le haut niveau de protection, les obstacles invisibles aux importations ou la structure inhabituelle ou anormale de ses échanges

Key term(s)
  • obstacle invisible à l'importation
  • barrière invisible à l'importation

Spanish

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