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tariff

[tar-if] / ˈtΓ¦r Ιͺf /


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As a result of the stock’s recent decline, the relative strength index has dropped below the key threshold of 30 for the first time since the “liberation day” tariff panic of April 2025.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2026

Jersey Electricity said the tariff increase would add just over £1 per week for a typical all-electric home from March 2027.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026

The accord calmed tensions after a whirlwind of tariff hikes, and required China to buy US soybeans while suspending export controls on rare earths.

From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2026

It said the Trucks North America business sold 45,629 units in the quarter, up from 30,225 a year earlier, due to a continued market recovery, while last year’s level was burdened by tariff uncertainty.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 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

The automaker changed course last year amid hefty U.S. tariffs on foreign vehicles and said Jeep Compass production would be shifted to a factory in Illinois.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

“The CPI data shows that inflation remains hot and it’s not just energy, or tariffs, or even AI-related bottlenecks,” said Sonu Varghese, global macro strategist at the Carson Group.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2026

Gas customers in Jersey will see their bills increase by about 5% from 1 December after Island Energy announced a rise in tariffs for households and businesses.

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026

The 0.18 percentage point rise in the 2-year Treasury yield, to 4.725%, was the largest daily increase since April 9, 2025, when President Trump announced a pause on many of his Liberation Day tariffs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 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

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

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

Speaking of funerals reminds me that the newspapers propose that the undertakers, like the butchers, should 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

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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