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tariff::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | duty |
| Type of | indirect tax |
| Has types | custom, customs, customs duty, export duty, import duty, impost, octroi, protective tariff, revenue tariff, tonnage, tonnage duty, tunnage, countervailing duty |
Examples of tariff
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The rift widens between free-trade farm states and pro-tariff industrial states.
From the businessweek.com
American automakers said the old rule operated as a non-tariff barrier to trade.
From the freep.com
On their coffee, even by the new tariff, we impose a duty equal to 200 per cent.
From the economist.com
A tariff is money going from the company importing it to the federal government.
From the inrich.com
In the decision, Obama imposed a three-year tariff on Chinese-made tire imports.
From the businessweek.com
Republicans repealed the income tax lest its revenues lead to tariff reductions.
From the newsweek.com
Read Mark Hoosen's article for more details on switching to a fixed rate tariff.
From the thisisbristol.co.uk
My thesaurus says tax could mean duty, levy, toll, tariff, income tax or excise.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
But the tariff on the components used to make cars can be as high as 30 percent.
From the post-gazette.com
- Charge a tariff; "tariff imported goods"
- Duty: a government tax on imports or exports; "they signed a treaty to lower duties on trade between their countries"
- A tariff is a tax on imports or exports (an international trade tariff). In other languages and very occasionally in English, "tariff" or its equivalent may also be used to describe any list of prices (electrical tariff, etc.)
- In England and Wales, life imprisonment is a sentence which lasts until the death of the prisoner, although in most cases the prisoner will be eligible for parole (officially termed "early release") after a fixed period set by the judge. ...
- (Tariffing) A telecommunications tariff is an open contract between a telecommunications service provider and the public, filed with a regulating body such as a Public Utilities Commission. ...
- A system of government-imposed duties levied on imported or exported goods; a list of such duties, or the duties themselves; a schedule of rates, fees or prices; a sentence determined according to a scale of standard penalties for certain categories of crime; to levy a duty on (something)
- (TARIFFS) Taxes placed on foreign goods coming into the United States
- (Tariffs) Price structures for communication facilities set forth by federal or local governments, intended to allow telephone companies (LATA, see local access transport area, above) a fair rate of return on their capital investments.
- (Tariffs) These are groups of Rates. Sometimes they are called Price Lists.
