Tariff in example sentence

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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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.

Historians continue to debate the centrality of the Smoot-Hawley law itself, but the subsequent tariff war certainly damaged trade and economic growth, making a bad situation worse.

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