Tariff in example sentence

In 1934, the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act – pushed through by Cordell Hull, the secretary of state in President Franklin Roosevelt’s Democratic administration – paved the way for a transition to a more enlightened period of mutually-agreed tariff reductions.

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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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