import tax

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Vietnam has prepared a draft decree that would slash import tax rates to zero on certain petroleum products in a bid to "stabilise the domestic market", its finance ministry has said.

From Barron's • Mar. 9, 2026

They had bid up U.S. futures and loaded warehouses with copper in anticipation of a steep import tax on cathodes and other less processed forms of the metal, which is essential to everything electric.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 5, 2026

Brazil, which is the world's biggest producer of coffee, has been slapped with a 50% US import tax.

From BBC • Sep. 4, 2025

For nearly nine decades, an import tax exception allowed low-value packages to enter the U.S. without duties attached.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2025

In other words the senator's position on the proposal to increase the import tax on nitrates may be traced directly to the fact that he spent the previous evening watching "Little Lord Fauntleroy."

From Pieces of Hate And Other Enthusiams by Broun, Heywood