tariff
Example Sentences
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Several European nations last month sent troops to the island, which belongs to Denmark, and threatened to use their financial muscle to retaliate against the tariffs that Washington imposed in retribution.
Sweeping US tariffs introduced last year helped send copper prices soaring to record highs, as companies rushed to buy both semi-finished and refined stocks.
From Barron's
This past April, as the economy closed in on a soft landing, steep tariffs had forecasters bracing for a new surge in inflation.
There was certainly a palpable sense of relief that after all the upsets of the last few months, with tariffs and the threat of a US grab for Greenland, the transatlantic alliance was not dead.
From BBC
Some of that increase is due to new tariffs and rising manufacturing costs.
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