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Noun
Several companies have announced layoffs while citing the impact of Trump’s tariffs.—Ty Roush, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025 People need movies, and there’s been very little headwind from the talk of tariffs.—Aaron Couch, HollywoodReporter, 20 May 2025
Verb
Duffy released a spreadsheet showing how other countries tariffed particular goods at a higher rate than the U.S.—Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, 19 May 2025 Going the other way, the first 100,000 vehicles imported from Britain to the U.S. will face only the base 10% tariff, with anything over that tariffed at 25%.—Haisten Willis, The Washington Examiner, 8 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for tariff
: 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
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