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tariff

[tar-if] / ˈtær ɪf /


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Ineos is asking governments in the UK and the EU — where most of its products are exported to — to put in tariff protections against Chinese products.

From BBC Sep. 22, 2026

Canada’s Department of Finance said goods that don’t originate in the U.S. aren’t subject to the tariff.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 21, 2026

The U.S. imposes a 25% tariff on cars assembled in Canada, Mexico and elsewhere abroad.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

The report also shared concerns the new tariff regime, made in a bid to boost British Steel production and usage, could cause smaller businesses to go bust.

From BBC Sep. 18, 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

Elon Musk on Wednesday called for lower tariffs and fewer trade restrictions with China ahead of a planned meeting between U.S. and Chinese leaders.

From MarketWatch Sep. 23, 2026

A recent Emerson College poll found that 58% of Iowans oppose Mr. Trump’s latest tariffs on Canada, including 30% of Republicans.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 22, 2026

European factories would have extra work while Chinese manufacturers could avoid high tariffs when selling into the US and the EU by making and exporting the cars in and from those markets.

From BBC Sep. 22, 2026

Yet it also masks weakness under of the surface of the stock market, where the toll of tariffs, inflation, surging energy prices and higher borrowing costs has begun to bite.

From MarketWatch Sep. 21, 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

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

Ships, colonies, commerce, mean to a European nation of to-day just what our vast, half-improved, heavily tariffed territory means to us.

From Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

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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