tariff

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Recent Examples of tariff This year brought two new adverse factors — President Donald Trump’s tariffs that could generate retaliatory tariffs, depressing export markets, and Trump’s sweeps of undocumented immigrants, who are a major portion of the agricultural labor force. Dan Walters, Mercury News, 25 June 2025 Amid the tariff debates in March, Trump again attempted to use the annexing notion as a bargaining chip. Callum Sutherland, Time, 25 June 2025 Overall levels of market uncertainty have declined compared to their peaks in the immediate aftermath of Trump’s on-again, off-again tariff policy. Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 25 June 2025 But security experts could find themselves in a similar position to that of economists: despite near-total expert consensus that tariffs will spark a trade war and hurt the U.S. economy, Trump plowed ahead. Florence Gaub, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for tariff
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Noun
  • The tax cuts are a key factor in Wall Street’s forecasts for the economy and financial markets, predicting a boost that will help offset a drag from Trump’s tariffs.
    Ani Freedman, Fortune, 30 June 2025
  • The president floated backing a primary challenger to the North Carolina GOP senator on Saturday after Tillis voted against advancing Trump’s tax and spending cuts bill, which is loaded up with steeper cuts to Medicaid than the House’s version.
    Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 29 June 2025
Noun
  • When investing abroad, key costs usually depend on the host country’s tax regulations, transaction levies and property maintenance fees.
    Maxim Lukyanov, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
  • The White House, for example, has held off on implementing additional higher levies of up to 50% on the European Union until July 9.
    Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 25 June 2025

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“Tariff.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tariff. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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