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tariff
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n. a government tax on imports or exports; "they signed a treaty to lower duties on trade between their countries" [syn: duty ] v. charge a tariff; "tariff imported goods"
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tariff \Tar"iff\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tariffed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Tariffing .] To make a list of duties on, as goods.
Usage examples of tariff.
In the dingy little dining-room of the Albergo Monte Gazza, a mountain inn miles from anywhere, situation arduous for walkers and pointless for cars, tariff humanely adjusted to the purses of the penniless, his poise and finish made him a grotesque.
A complete copy of the tariff was placed in the hands of each member of parliament previously to the 5th of May, on which day it was announced that it would be moved to go into committee on this important subject.
During this year Sir Henry Pottinger issued a proclamation, in which he announced that the ratification of the treaty, mentioned in the last chapter, between Great Britain and China had been exchanged, and that he had concluded with the Chinese high commissioner, Keying, a commercial treaty and tariff.
As we headed into December, a little sanity crept back into political life when the House and the Senate passed the Global Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, GATT, with large bipartisan majorities.
Because we have fewer warships, our traders pay higher tariffs elsewhere in the world.
Raising tariffs will lower the golds we gather because fewer goods will come to Cyad and fewer will leave.
That takes more coins, but if tariffs go up, there is less trade and fewer coins.
He stood and walked to the open window, looking out at the white and green of Fairhaven, thinking about Heralt and the continued tariff and trade problems.
The specific demands included state regulation of railroads, free coinage of silver, reduction of the tariff to a revenue basis, revision of the patent laws, high taxation of oleomargarine, and reduction of the legal rate of interest from 10 to 8 per cent.
Free Trade nationalism in power is better than high tariff nationalism, and pacificist party liberalism better than aggressive party patriotism.
Instead of commiserating with the economic plight of the British, the Canadians blustered and snarled, hurling threats of retaliation against any tariff adjustments the United Kingdom might have to make in its EEC negotiations.
At the Democratic state convention in Omaha in 1888 he made a speech on the tariff which gave him immediately a state-wide reputation as an orator and expounder of public issues.
In 1926 when the two commissions promised by the Washington Conference were meeting in Peking and Shanghai to review tariff autonomy and extrality, China hardly had a government.
That way the masseuse could keep the whole tariff and Serenity would be none the wiser.
His heart sank as he saw that the tariff, instead of being quoted in the common contraction of monits, was given in monetary unitsthe sort of traditional touch usually associated with exorbitant prices.