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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tariff
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
import taxes/duties/tariffs
▪ The US imposed huge import duties on products from Europe.
punitive tariffs
▪ The US could impose punitive tariffs on exports.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
high
▪ Mr Varadharajan wants high tariffs to replace them.
▪ To stem the flow, he advocates strict trade protections, including high tariffs on imported goods.
▪ As a non-GATT member its goods generally faced higher tariffs and other trade barriers in world markets.
▪ Consequently, rulers encouraged people to produce goods for export and devised high tariffs to discourage imports.
▪ And the fall was greater where customers were penalised by higher tariffs for consumption above a certain level.
▪ Our trading partners are not going to acquiesce quietly in high tariffs on the goods they sell us.
▪ In the mid-1960s quotas were replaced by prohibitively high tariffs.
▪ The highest protective tariffs were lowered, and the tax system was somewhat reformed.
low
▪ The incentive offered by the electricity boards will be a lower tariff.
new
▪ On Jan. 23 a decree suspended import tariffs retroactively from Jan. 15 until the expected announcement of new tariffs on April 1.
▪ Economically sensitive goods such as citrus fruits, grapes, raisins and wine will face new tariffs.
▪ A Union-Republican Customs Committee was to have been established by July 1 to reach agreement with the republics on the new tariffs.
▪ For consumers who use 1,000 units or less a new tariff is introduced, with no standing charge.
▪ A new tariff for low electricity users will also be introduced which has no standing charge.
optimal
▪ The optimal tariff increases welfare only marginally, its main effect being to redistribute welfare from farmers to government.
protective
▪ Cobden's hero was the trader, who had no use for protective tariffs which impeded the expansion of commerce between nations.
▪ High protective tariffs penalized the peasant consumer.
▪ The highest protective tariffs were lowered, and the tax system was somewhat reformed.
punitive
▪ He described the prospect of punitive tariffs as sad.
■ NOUN
barrier
▪ The rich world keeps the South wedded to commodity production by putting up tariff barriers to manufactured goods.
▪ By 1961 internal tariff barriers had been substantially reduced and quota restrictions on industrial products had been largely eliminated.
import
▪ On Jan. 23 a decree suspended import tariffs retroactively from Jan. 15 until the expected announcement of new tariffs on April 1.
▪ Sales soared on low interest rates and declining import tariffs.
▪ Saitoti announced measures to promote exports, including a reform of the import tariff system to assist imports of manufacturing inputs.
▪ In addition to inadequate protection of intellectual property rights these included a range of import tariffs, import licensing and customs practices.
▪ The centrepiece of the package involved cuts in average import tariffs from 15 percent to 5 percent by 1996.
policy
▪ The shadow cabinet decided in April 1912 that it would abandon the referendum idea and return to the full tariff policy.
protection
▪ The firm obtained a nominal tariff protection of 35 percent in 1981.
rate
▪ Customs agents have the power to value imports and, within limits, charge a range of tariff rates.
▪ But when completed, the tariff rates had risen astronomically, in some cases by over 1000%.
▪ At the same time, Congress passed an act reducing tariff rates.
▪ Average tariff rates hover between 1. 5 and 3 percent, depending on the product.
reduction
▪ A policy of free trade, rather than membership of a discriminatory trading regime, would have maximised the benefits of tariff reductions.
reform
▪ No one had risked more for tariff reform than he had in 1923.
▪ These two forms of dissent coalesced in the demand for a stronger approach to the Tory nostrum of tariff reform.
▪ In the domestic sphere the policy was equally fundamental, for tariff reform was seen as the antithesis of socialism.
structure
▪ A commonly proposed and reasonably workable alternative to constant per unit prices is the two-part tariff structure.
▪ Each of these situations requires a different tariff structure.
■ VERB
cut
▪ He has cut tariffs, promoted privatisation, scrapped subsidies and reduced state spending.
eliminate
▪ Consequently, competition was eliminated and tariffs reached an excessive level.
▪ Their customs union, known as Mercosur, took the final step last year toward eliminating most tariffs.
▪ The original plan was to eliminate tariffs on most goods by 2004.
▪ Export subsidies will be eliminated and tariffs lowered, although some industries will be protected for another 15 years.
raise
▪ When a national industry is harmed by imports, governments can raise tariffs without violating trade agreement.
▪ So Musser raised the tariff to $ 3.
reduce
▪ At the same time, Congress passed an act reducing tariff rates.
set
▪ Rich nations have set tariffs on imports from developing countries at 30 % higher than the global average.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The aim of the organization is to reduce tariffs and promote free trade.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As a non-GATT member its goods generally faced higher tariffs and other trade barriers in world markets.
▪ Banana group Geest jumped 11p to 365p, boosted by recent tariff changes.
▪ No one had risked more for tariff reform than he had in 1923.
▪ Secondly the lowering of trans-ocean communications tariffs may make global data pipelines nearly as cheap to operate as national networks.
▪ So Musser raised the tariff to $ 3.
▪ Their customs union, known as Mercosur, took the final step last year toward eliminating most tariffs.
▪ Third, the results clearly show the non-equivalence between tariffs and quotas in the presence of oligopoly.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tariff

Tariff \Tar"iff\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tariffed; p. pr. & vb. n. Tariffing.] To make a list of duties on, as goods.

Tariff

Tariff \Tar"iff\, n. [F. tarif; cf. Sp. & Pg. tarifa, It. tariffa; all fr. Ar. ta'r[=i]f information, explanation, definition, from 'arafa, to know, to inform, explain.]

  1. A schedule, system, or scheme of duties imposed by the government of a country upon goods imported or exported; as, a revenue tariff; a protective tariff; Clay's compromise tariff. (U. S. 1833).

    Note: The United States and Great Britain impose no duties on exports; hence, in these countries the tariff refers only to imports.

    Note: A tariff may be imposed solely for, and with reference to, the production of revenue (called a

    revenue tariff, or

    tariff for revenue, or for the artificial fostering of home industries (

    a projective tariff), or as a means of coercing foreign governments, as in case of

    retaliatory tariff.

  2. The duty, or rate of duty, so imposed; as, the tariff on wool; a tariff of two cents a pound.

  3. Any schedule or system of rates, changes, etc.; as, a tariff of fees, or of railroad fares.
    --Bolingbroke.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tariff

1590s, "arithmetical table," also "official list of customs duties on imports or exports; law regulating import duties," from Italian tariffa "tariff, price, assessment," Medieval Latin tarifa "list of prices, book of rates," from Arabic ta'rif "information, notification, a making known; inventory of fees to be paid," verbal noun from arafa "he made known, he taught." Sense of "classified list of charges made in a business" is recorded from 1757. The U.S. Tariff of Abominations was passed in 1828.

Wiktionary
tariff

n. 1 a system of government-imposed duties levied on imported or exported goods; a list of such duties, or the duties themselves 2 a schedule of rates, fees or prices 3 (context British English) a sentence determined according to a scale of standard penalties for certain categories of crime vb. (context transitive English) to levy a duty on (something)

WordNet
tariff

  1. n. a government tax on imports or exports; "they signed a treaty to lower duties on trade between their countries" [syn: duty]

  2. v. charge a tariff; "tariff imported goods"

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Wikipedia
Tariff

A tariff is a tax on imports or exports (an international trade tariff). In other languages and very occasionally in English, "tariff" or its equivalent may also be used to describe any list of prices (electrical tariff, etc.)

Tariff (disambiguation)

A tariff is a tax on imported or exported goods.

A tariff may also refer to:

  • Tariff, a schedule of prices for the sale or rental of a product or service
  • Tariff (criminal law), in British criminal law, a minimum prison sentence
  • Tariff, Ohio, United States
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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.