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Barriers and Facilitators to the Introduction of Import Duties Designed to Prevent Noncommunicable Disease in Tonga: a Case Study

2021-08-30

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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Background</bold> In Tonga, import duties were lowered on tinned fish and seafood in 2013 and raised on soft drinks, dripping and other animal fats. Additional import duties were applied to soft drinks and dripping and other fats in 2016 and duties were also applied to high fat meats, mutton flaps and turkey tails. The objective of this study was to describe barriers to and facili...

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Literature Corpus work: 47694592-430b-5f80-94aa-3183806a1f0f
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-838201/v1

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