Tariff in example sentence

The Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930 – which raised US tariffs on more than 20,000 imported goods by as much as 50% – was supposed to protect American farmers and businesses.

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Did you know that for all my raw material that I can't find in the country, I have to pay a 45 percent tariff on everything that comes in?

Forty-five percent tariff.

But they'll sell it to Japan and China instead, because we have tariff barriers to protect our corn farmers, and they don't.

Monetary tightening was not the only major policy error of the 1930’s; so was a retreat into protectionism, symbolized by the Smoot-Hawley tariff increases at the beginning of that decade.

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