import tax

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Even though Tanzania levies a 35% import tax on used clothes, Ilala is still overflowing with customers looking for cheap clothes.

From BBC • May 23, 2026

Vietnam has prepared a draft decree that would slash import tax rates to zero on certain petroleum products in a bid to "stabilise the domestic market", its finance ministry has said.

From Barron's • Mar. 9, 2026

An import tax on less-processed copper would put a premium on U.S.-made cathodes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2025

First, the Constitution says Congress, not the president, has the power “to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises,” and a tariff is an import tax.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 4, 2025

This import tax of three pence a pound on tea was retained in order that the right of Parliament to tax the colonies might be asserted.

From A Brief History of the United States by McMaster, John Bach