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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

This tariff is paid for by the American company that has imported the toys.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

The tariff controversy was settled, but it hinted at a greater problem.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

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

During the company’s earnings call in July, Goncalves had said tariffs were leading to improved demand from automakers in particular.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

Yuriy Ryzhenkov, chief executive of Metinvest, told the BBC the recently-imposed tariffs on imported steel to the EU were "unfair" and had been put in place "without any consideration for the situation Ukraine is in".

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

It recognized England’s right to retain tariffs on American exports while granting English imports most-favored status in the United States; it implicitly accepted English impressment of American sailors.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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

In England our earliest gold coin weighed 128 4⁄7 grains, and was tariffed at 6s. 8d.

From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by William Arthur Shaw

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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