Tariff in example sentence

It developed through the indigenous efforts of Americans acting in their own way--assisted by extensive state intervention, through land grants to farmers, railroads, and mining companies, military spending that stimulated the economy (and still does), and, of course, tariff barriers.

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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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