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tariff

[tar-if] / ˈtΓ¦r Ιͺf /


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New Delhi has also insisted that its final tariff rate should be competitive with those received by other regional manufacturing rivals such as Vietnam.

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026

Plus: Big Tech is soft-launching data centers early and U.S. tariff pressure is prompting countries to tighten their forced-labor rules.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

The cost of making the $30 toy, getting it to the US, and paying the import tariff, comes to $7.35.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

They will soon break into Canada, which lowered its tariff rate on tens of thousands of Chinese EVs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 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

ITEP's estimates about the impact of tariffs on American households of different income levels are broadly similar to those of the Tax Foundation think tank, external.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

The two sides reached a provisional agreement in February aimed at reducing US tariffs on Indian products.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

Sixty-eight percent say the tariffs have raised their expenses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

If higher tariffs were to return, economists say it would cast a shadow on India's growth outlook, hurt market sentiment and heap pressure on an already-weak rupee.

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 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

It’s also possible that retailers, figuring that consumers would expect to pay more for tariffed washing machines and would assume the same effect held for dryers, charged more for the latter to fatten their profits.

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

I presume if the siege lasts long enough, dogs, rats, and cats will be tariffed.

From Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris by Henry Labouchere

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

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

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


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