tariff
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A Mexican official said Thursday that the country is making "steady progress" towards a US tariff deal.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
A typical household on a standard variable tariff will see annual bills rise by about £60 to £1,723, although the amount paid will ultimately depend on how much energy is used.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
With little sign of a truce or lower international energy costs, a big increase in prices for those not on a fixed tariff looks highly likely.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
The second-quarter performance showed a drop in profit and anemic revenue growth as Shein continued to struggle with tariff headwinds and mounting logistics costs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
The tariff controversy was settled, but it hinted at a greater problem.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
The firm, which employs 39,000 people worldwide, reported below-target growth and a slight drop in net profits last year, in part because of US tariffs.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
Manufacturing data for September came in at a four-month high, even as inflation from fuel and tariffs remains a problem.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
The regulator said typical households on standard variable tariffs will pay about £60 more a year, taking annual bills to £1,723.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
About 20 million households in England, Scotland and Wales are on variable energy tariffs set by Ofgem's price cap, which puts a maximum price on each unit of gas and electricity.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 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
Some of the tariff effect has shown up in higher retail prices for foreign goods or domestic goods made wholly or partially from tariffed imported parts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Importers have been agile in switching their supply chains away from the most highly tariffed countries.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2026
On Aug. 11, Trump wrote on Truth Social that gold wouldn’t be tariffed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 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
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 Henry James
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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