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[tar-if] / ˈtær ɪf /


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Apple anticipates a 47% to 48% gross margin for the September quarter, with about 1 percentage point of positive contribution from tariff refunds.

From MarketWatch Jul. 31, 2026

Siemens Healthineers SHL -0.91%decrease; red down pointing triangle cut its full-year outlook for revenue growth, citing a weak performance in its diagnostics segment, but raised its guidance for adjusted earnings due to U.S. tariff refunds.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

Memory cost pressures are also showing up in Apple’s margins: Excluding tariff refunds, Apple’s gross margin actually declined 120 basis points quarter-over-quarter.

From MarketWatch Jul. 31, 2026

Cook said Apple intended to "reinvest the tariff refunds into the US".

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

The tariff controversy was settled, but it hinted at a greater problem.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

But he didn’t tie any of these observations into near-term action, and it seems clear that tariffs, wars and the AI boom are all making some contribution to persistent inflation at this point.

From MarketWatch Jul. 31, 2026

In his nearly three decades at Apple, Tim Cook completely revolutionized the company’s supply chain and guided the company through tariffs, pandemic shutdowns and other obstacles.

From MarketWatch Jul. 31, 2026

According to Robert McClelland, senior fellow at the Tax Policy Center, a think tank, the highest effective rate—the amount of tariffs collected divided by the total value of imports—was 3% in Trump’s first term.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

Others are already baked into pricing to come as a result of tariffs and fuel costs, including for groceries, experts said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 30, 2026

The United States and Oman had just completed negotiations on a free-trade agreement to eliminate tariffs and trade barriers between the two nations.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman

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

As American importers scrambled to switch suppliers last year, Asian producers such as Thailand and Vietnam benefitted at the expense of more highly tariffed China.

From BBC Feb. 20, 2026

The automaker said Tuesday it expects to spend an additional $1 billion this year to import heavily tariffed aluminum while Novelis works to get the plant back on track.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 11, 2026

The fires sidelined a critical Novelis factory in New York, forcing Ford to import heavily tariffed aluminum until the plant is fully back online, which Ford expects will be sometime between May and September.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 10, 2026

For a minute, amid the pleasantness—poetry in tariffed items, but all the more, for guests already convicted, a challenge to consumption—they smiled at each other in confirmed fellowship.

From The Ambassadors by James, Henry

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 Shaw, William Arthur

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 Gordon, Irwin Leslie




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