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tariff

[tar-if] / ˈtΓ¦r Ιͺf /


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"We've got to end the Canadian tariff war. It is certainly not helpful to us. It is not helpful to our automobile industry," Rogers said recently.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

Senator Susan Collins said she had worked with the administration to secure "tariff relief"

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

Carney reiterated that Canadian officials are prepared to return to talks with the U.S. on a deal that provides tariff relief on Canadian steel, aluminum and automobiles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Some big coffee growers say they’re still trying to recoup costs from the tariff debacle, so their prices have stayed high.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

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

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

They estimated that prices for these items, which make up a much larger share of household budgets among the nonwealthy, would have fallen on average by 1% over the year without the tariffs.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

Faced with declining global sales, ruthless competition in China, U.S. tariffs, pressure from shareholders and from the German state, VW Group’s premium-luxury brand is currently in cash-conservation mode.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

The committee members discussed the ongoing impact of US tariffs in Canada.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

Shares in Swedish carmaker Volvo Cars plunged Friday after it said US tariffs and strong competition from local brands in China pushed it into a third-quarter loss.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

Poor in natural resources, its trade crippled by high tariffs and low demand, Japan was struggling to support a growing population.

From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand

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

As American importers scrambled to switch suppliers last year, Asian producers such as Thailand and Vietnam benefitted at the expense of more highly tariffed China.

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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