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By Markus Wacket and Vera Eckert FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Germany’s cabinet agreed late on Thursday to impose a gas price levy on consumers, aiming to help struggling importers including Uniper cope with soaring prices due to reduced Russian supply. The levy aims to share the additional cost of replacing gas from Russia among all users, including households and industrial consumers, with the proceeds available to all companies that need to replace Russian gas. But there are several hurdles to raising the fees that must be overcome ahead of the winter heating season which starts in October. Utilit…