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tariff

[tar-if] / ˈtær ɪf /


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The deal will drop over 90 percent of tariff lines and cover areas ranging from agriculture to aerospace to artificial intelligence, Carney said without revealing specifics.

From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 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

By the time Krinsky closed the High Point plant, the gyrations in U.S. tariff rates had settled down.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

Germany's trade with the world's largest economy has been hit hard by US President Donald Trump's tariff blitz.

From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 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

While Canada's trade surplus edged up in September, driven by higher oil exports, US President Donald Trump's tariffs also pinched multiple sectors, data showed.

From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026

My team at Tax Foundation estimates that the tariffs in place right now are effectively an annual tax hike of $820 per U.S. household.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 14, 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

In foreign exchange markets, the DXY dollar index briefly edged above 103 for the first time since April 2025 on Thursday, touching levels not seen since the shock announcement of U.S. tariffs on “Liberation Day.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 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

On Aug. 11, Trump wrote on Truth Social that gold wouldn’t be tariffed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

For a minute, amid the pleasantness—poetry in tariffed items, but all the more, for guests already convicted, a challenge to consumption—they smiled at each other in confirmed fellowship.

From The Ambassadors by Henry James

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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