Examples of tariff in a Sentence
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Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2024
The group also cited the risks of Chinese auto companies building facilities across the border in Mexico that could circumvent tariffs.
—Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2024
Not everyone in Europe agrees that tariffs would be a good thing.
—Ken Moritsugu, Quartz, 18 Apr. 2024
The announcement on steel tariffs was cheered by U.S. steelmakers.
—Chris Megerian, Fortune, 17 Apr. 2024
That probe, to be launched Wednesday by the office of U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai, could lead to the imposition of fresh tariffs or other penalties on Chinese vessels.
—David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2024
Many worry that if the European Commission imposes higher tariffs on Chinese exports, and Beijing retaliates, German businesses will suffer most.
—Melissa Eddy, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2024
Trump has floated a 10% across-the-board tariff on imports, a 60% tariff on imports from China and a 100% tariff on foreign cars – including from Mexico.
—Krystal Hur, CNN, 12 Apr. 2024
Former President Donald Trump advocates across-the-board tariffs and reductions in U.S. drug prices to the level of prices paid in other nations.
—James C. Robinson, STAT, 29 Mar. 2024
Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2023
Will tariff reductions be on the docket?
—Ian Mount, Fortune, 15 Nov. 2021
But Trump’s main strategy for obtaining better trade deals has been to tariff other countries into submission.
—Tom Benning, Dallas News, 3 Apr. 2020
In public, Chinese officials call Mr Trump’s tariffs self-defeating and stress their country’s economic resilience.
—The Economist, 2 Jan. 2020
If Trump continues to tariff Chinese goods, the real losers will be the American consumers, manufacturers and farmers who will bear the costs.
—Leo Hindery Jr. For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 11 Sep. 2019
Thus, American retailers and consumers will likely not get stuck with the extra cost for those goods tariffed in December.
—James D. Schultz For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 15 Aug. 2019
Chief Executive Officer Martin Wong said his company, a rival to Inventec, has also shifted some notebook lines to Taiwan and was considering investing more in Vietnam should tariff-conflicts persist.
—Katherine Dunn, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2019
Fifty-three-foot shipping containers are essential for trucking and rail transportation, and big companies like J.B Hunt and CSX said that tariffing them would make all kinds of freight shipments more expensive.
—Lydia Depillis, ProPublica, 22 Aug. 2019
Noun
Yet higher tariffs imposed on Chinese imports remain.
—Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2024
The group also cited the risks of Chinese auto companies building facilities across the border in Mexico that could circumvent tariffs.
—Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2024
Not everyone in Europe agrees that tariffs would be a good thing.
—Ken Moritsugu, Quartz, 18 Apr. 2024
The announcement on steel tariffs was cheered by U.S. steelmakers.
—Chris Megerian, Fortune, 17 Apr. 2024
That probe, to be launched Wednesday by the office of U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai, could lead to the imposition of fresh tariffs or other penalties on Chinese vessels.
—David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2024
Many worry that if the European Commission imposes higher tariffs on Chinese exports, and Beijing retaliates, German businesses will suffer most.
—Melissa Eddy, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2024
Trump has floated a 10% across-the-board tariff on imports, a 60% tariff on imports from China and a 100% tariff on foreign cars – including from Mexico.
—Krystal Hur, CNN, 12 Apr. 2024
Former President Donald Trump advocates across-the-board tariffs and reductions in U.S. drug prices to the level of prices paid in other nations.
—James C. Robinson, STAT, 29 Mar. 2024
Verb
Research from economists at the Federal Reserve and the University of Chicago found that tariffs Mr. Trump imposed on washing machines in 2018 created about 1,800 jobs while raising the median prices consumers paid for new washers and dryers by $86 and $92 per unit.
—Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2023
Will tariff reductions be on the docket?
—Ian Mount, Fortune, 15 Nov. 2021
But Trump’s main strategy for obtaining better trade deals has been to tariff other countries into submission.
—Tom Benning, Dallas News, 3 Apr. 2020
In public, Chinese officials call Mr Trump’s tariffs self-defeating and stress their country’s economic resilience.
—The Economist, 2 Jan. 2020
If Trump continues to tariff Chinese goods, the real losers will be the American consumers, manufacturers and farmers who will bear the costs.
—Leo Hindery Jr. For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 11 Sep. 2019
Thus, American retailers and consumers will likely not get stuck with the extra cost for those goods tariffed in December.
—James D. Schultz For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 15 Aug. 2019
Chief Executive Officer Martin Wong said his company, a rival to Inventec, has also shifted some notebook lines to Taiwan and was considering investing more in Vietnam should tariff-conflicts persist.
—Katherine Dunn, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2019
Fifty-three-foot shipping containers are essential for trucking and rail transportation, and big companies like J.B Hunt and CSX said that tariffing them would make all kinds of freight shipments more expensive.
—Lydia Depillis, ProPublica, 22 Aug. 2019
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“Tariff.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tariff. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.
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tariff
noun
tar·iff
ˈtar-əf 
1
a
: a schedule of duties imposed by a government on imported or in some countries exported goods
b
: a duty or rate of duty imposed in such a schedule
2
: a document filed with the appropriate government agency that sets forth the rates, charges, and other provisions pertaining to services furnished by a business (as a carrier) or public utility
Etymology
Noun
Italian tariffa, from Arabic taʽrīf notification
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