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tariff

[tar-if] / ˈtær ɪf /


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FedEx said it was the importer of 43% of the 53 million tariff entries collected by the government.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

These calculations will perplex the copper market until the tariff question is settled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Fortune said consumers should regularly review their tariff and not assume staying with the same supplier would offer the best value.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

A Mexican official said Thursday that the country is making "steady progress" towards a US tariff deal.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

“So six bolts of silk at twice the price, plus the tariff, but minus my bargain to you as a Zoroastrian would be one hundred forty-seven drachms.”

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

The bank expects disinflation to return as the impacts of oil prices and tariffs begin to ease in the new year.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

Six years ago, in an attempt to push local manufacturing and keep substandard toys out of its market, India raised tariffs on imported toys from 20% to 60% and eventually to 70%.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

None of that was required last year when he paid the tariffs, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

"Suppliers are more exposed to tariffs," Harp said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

He had heard talk of tariffs, of slave states and free ones, of a violent old man named John Brown, and during the past winter, of states seceding from the Union.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt

According to data by Statistics Canada, the swing state of Ohio will be hardest hit, with C$3.2bn - or 12% - of its exports soon to be tariffed by Canada, followed by Illinois and Pennsylvania.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

Will retailers seek out customers who paid higher prices on products that were tariffed to hand them refunds?

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026

Importers have been agile in switching their supply chains away from the most highly tariffed countries.

From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2026

It means a business will send goods somewhere without the knowledge of how those goods will be valued when it arrives at customs... you wouldn't know how your goods will be valued before you're tariffed.

From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026

By a decree of 6th November 1870, the 8-florin gold piece was tariffed at 8.10 florin.

From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by William Arthur Shaw

This is why the surreal stories about the US tariffing rarely visited islands only inhabited by penguins matter.

From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2025

“You can’t be tariffing people at the same exact time that you’re negotiating a detailed arrangement with them,” Mr. Ross said, while describing them as a cocked pistol.

From New York Times ● May 21, 2018

The exportation of the national specie was still forbidden, and more than once the State found itself obliged to return to the question of the tariffing of its coinage.

From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by William Arthur Shaw

He had something to do with the high cost of tariffing.

From Who Was Who: 5000 BC - 1914 Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be by Irwin Leslie Gordon




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