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Compliance With Foreign Law
Compliance With Foreign Law
Vocabulary
1. Quoted Price: In the financial markets, a quoted price is the last price at which a
trade took place. This is the lowest price at which the holder of a security is willing
to sell it.
2. Bidding: the act of offering to pay a particular amount of money for something, by
different people
3. Barter: to exchange goods for other things rather than for money
4. Countertrade: a situation in which two countries trade goods and services for other
goods and services, not for money
5. Bid bond: an amount of money that a company that makes the lowest bid to do a
particular piece of work promises to pay if it then does not do the work
6. Antidumping: the practice of putting high taxes on imports (= goods from other
countries) in order to try to stop companies from other countries selling their
products very cheaply in your country, which damages your country's businesses
7. Duty: a tax paid on goods that are bought or imported
8. Ad valorem duties: n ad valorem payment, rate, or tax is calculated according to the
price of a product or service, rather than at a fixed rate
9. GATT: General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade: an international agreement to end
rules that limit trade, in force from 1948 until 1994
10. Invoice: a list of things provided or work done together with their cost, for payment
at a later time
Sentences
● Imperative
Countries often have special laws affecting certain products or products, and the existence
of such regulations must be prior to manufacture
When the importer marks and resells the goods, he collects tax from the buyer, which he
must remit to the administration after deducting the taxes due on importation.
● Declarative
Foreign countries often enact specialized laws prohibiting certain products except in
accordance with those laws.
Unlike the United States, many countries in the world have exchange control systems
designed to limit the amount of their currency that can be used to purchase foreign goods.
● Conditional
if the customer or the distributor is mistaken in the information he gives to the exporter
(…) to make a reasonable profit if it resells at the current market price in that country.
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