Tariff in example sentence

He identified a source of revenue – the tariff – that could be devoted to this end, and he rendered the bargain politically palatable by making clear that if state governments accumulated additional debts, and again got into trouble, they would not be bailed out a second time.

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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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