Question

1.) Import duties on leather footwear. What are the differences in the duties on shoes of different value, material composition, and quantity. Please explain the reasoning behind these differences. Do the same for frozen and/or concentrated orange juice.

2.) The world population pattern is shifting from rural to urban areas. Discuss the marketing ramifications.

3.) Some say the global environment is a global issue rather than a national one. What does this mean? Discuss.

Answer 1

The countries can be known for its diversity of production and high-quality footwear. The footwear manufacturer dabbles for children, men, and women, ranging from comfort shoes to sneakers and flip-flops, made from materials spanning leather, textiles, synthetics, and sustainable materials. In footwear manufacturing world, when the shoes are manufactured overseas, it will finally get transported to their final market. Because it is manufactured overseas thus the customs duties will be imposed on it. The import duty would depend on the nation of origin and destination country. The rules for the classification are usually common while each importing nation may have different duties. In U.S. the shoes need to be classified as per the USA “Harmonized Tariff Schedule” (HTS). It is the main reason for difference in duties on shoes of differential material composition, value, and quantity. The nation producing the shoe can incur different cost of production, and can also differ on the customs duties. Furthermore there can be difference due to the varying tariff rates such as Most Favored Nation (MFN) Tariff, Preferential Tariff, and Bound Tariff.

In the orange juice the base concentration and the amount of base need to be known to compute the total concentration of acids in the orange juice. In U.S. the orange juice having a concentration degree of less than 1.5 is considered to be a single strength orange juice. The government may impose heavy duties on those juices which do not meet the normal standards of the United States. The import duties can vary because few nations may calculate their duties depending on the juice components such as acid and sugar.

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