tariff
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These calculations will perplex the copper market until the tariff question is settled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
A Mexican official said Thursday that the country is making "steady progress" towards a US tariff deal.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
Snell added that her fixed-rate tariff comes to an end in late October, meaning they could soon face higher costs.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
With little sign of a truce or lower international energy costs, a big increase in prices for those not on a fixed tariff looks highly likely.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
The tariff controversy was settled, but it hinted at a greater problem.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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The rise affects around 22 million households on default tariffs regulated by Ofgem, while about 11 million households on fixed-rate deals will not see their prices change immediately.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
The firm, which employs 39,000 people worldwide, reported below-target growth and a slight drop in net profits last year, in part because of US tariffs.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
Manufacturing data for September came in at a four-month high, even as inflation from fuel and tariffs remains a problem.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
The agenda of the recent meeting between President Trump and Xi Jinping covered tariffs, artificial intelligence and market access.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 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
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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
Products that are almost entirely metal will still be tariffed at 50%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 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
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
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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