Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A list or system of duties imposed by a government on imported or exported goods.
- noun A duty or duties so imposed.
- noun A schedule of prices or fees.
- transitive verb To fix a duty or price on.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A list or table of goods with the duties or customs to be paid on them, either on importation or on exportation; a list or table of duties or customs to be paid on goods imported or exported.
- noun A duty, or the duties collectively, imposed according to such a list, table, or scale.
- noun A table or scale of charges generally: as, a telegraph tariff.
- noun A law regulating import duties: as, the tariff of 1824.
- To make a list of duties on, as on imported goods.
- To put a valuation upon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To make a list of duties on, as goods.
- noun A schedule, system, or scheme of duties imposed by the government of a country upon goods imported or exported
- noun The duty, or rate of duty, so imposed
- noun Any schedule or system of rates, changes, etc..
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
system ofgovernment -imposed duties levied onimported orexported goods ; alist of such duties, or the duties themselves - noun a
schedule ofrates ,fees orprices - noun UK a
sentence determined according to ascale ofstandard penalties for certaincategories ofcrime - verb transitive to
levy a duty on (something)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a government tax on imports or exports
- verb charge a tariff
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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So, if France (high rating) imports from Chile (low rating) then a tariff is applied equivalent to the amount they saved by producing the goods in Costa Rica instead of France.
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By far the larger part of the trade expansion has been occasioned by the recent tariff, but we must remember that a tariff is a burden on export trade and Britain's national economy is dependent on foreign trade.
Economic Recovery in Great Britain and the United States 1934
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In Canada, as elsewhere, the tariff exemplifies that right, whether in your opinion the tariff is applied wisely or not.
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Frankly, this seems rather obvious: it costs $7. 5M to connect farmers with Coca-Cola, whereas trying to compensate US corn syrup producers to drop the sugar tariff is somewhere in the hundreds of millions (per year).
Matthew Yglesias » Bill Gates, Coca-Cola, and Third World Farmers 2010
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Along the way, he expressed the belief that "the [ethanol import] tariff is likely to continue but over time be phased out," in conjunction with his call for a "fiscally responsible short-term extension of the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit [VEETC]."
Joel Velasco: Vilsack Changes Tune on the Ethanol Tariff Joel Velasco 2010
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There are more politically viable alternatives to a carbon tax, writes Jeffrey Sachs: A feed-in tariff subsidizes the low-carbon energy source rather than taxing the high-carbon energy source.
Wonkbook: 57% worry about mortgage; midterm might cost $4 billion; to triangulate or not to triangulate? Ezra Klein 2010
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Remember from above, the German feed-in tariff for solar is around $0.58 per KwH, or fully $0.50 above the price paid for the fossil fuel base load.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » I Need Some Help on Alternative Energy Subsidies 2010
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But the solar feed-in tariff and the renewable heat incentive, subsidising biomass plants and CHP boilers, are likely to be scaled back.
Port cuts 'to cost 60,000 green jobs' Tim Webb 2010
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In Germany, which is often held up as the model, feed-in tariff subsidies are between $0.06 (wind) and $0.50 (solar) a Kwh.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » I Need Some Help on Alternative Energy Subsidies 2010
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Along the way, he expressed the belief that "the [ethanol import] tariff is likely to continue but over time be phased out," in conjunction with his call for a "fiscally responsible short-term extension of the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit [VEETC]."
Joel Velasco: Vilsack Changes Tune on the Ethanol Tariff Joel Velasco 2010
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This new type of sentence, which began to be used in April 2005, gave offenders a minimum term – known as a tariff – that they had to spend in prison.
As a teenager, John was jailed for assaulting someone and stealing their bike. That was 17 years ago – will he ever be released? Sophie Atkinson 2024
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