tariff
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The analysts forecast an operating loss for the company’s petrochemical unit for the July-September period amid sluggish demand, with the benefit from U.S. tariff refunds in 2Q tapering off.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 28, 2026
Trade Representative Jamieson Greer described the products involved as “non-sensitive goods” that could “benefit from more favorable tariff treatment in the future.”
From MarketWatch β Sep. 28, 2026
The quarter, however, included a $25.4-million benefit from expected tariff refunds, without which Funko would have lost money.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 26, 2026
The summit produced no major policy announcements on flashpoints like artificial intelligence, Taiwan or trade, apart from a two-month extension of a tariff truce between the world's two largest economies.
From Barron's β Sep. 25, 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
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In addition to these latest import bans, the US has imposed 50% tariffs on a range of Canadian goods, including dairy, alcohol, steel and aluminium products, as well as 25% tariffs on Canadian-built cars.
From BBC β Sep. 29, 2026
Chinese products heading to American stores ranging from toys to small household appliances to Christmas decorations will benefit from the lower tariffs.
From BBC β Sep. 28, 2026
The White House said late Friday that the reduction of tariffs will cover nonsensitive goods, including U.S. exports of agricultural and medical products as well as Chinese exports of small appliances and toys.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 28, 2026
Another key market, the United States, saw revenue drop by 6 percent in the April-June quarter, reflecting the impact of tariffs.
From Barron's β Sep. 28, 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
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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 β 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 β Aug. 6, 2026
Importers have been agile in switching their supply chains away from the most highly tariffed countries.
From BBC β 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 β Feb. 11, 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 β 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 β 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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