What does tariff mean?
Definitions for tariff
ˈtær ɪftar·iff
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word tariff.
Princeton's WordNet
duty, tariffverb
a government tax on imports or exports
"they signed a treaty to lower duties on trade between their countries"
tariffverb
charge a tariff
"tariff imported goods"
Wiktionary
tariffnoun
a system of government-imposed duties levied on imported or exported goods; a list of such duties, or the duties themselves
tariffnoun
a schedule of rates, fees or prices
tariffnoun
a sentence determined according to a scale of standard penalties for certain categories of crime
tariffverb
to levy a duty on (something)
Etymology: tariffa, from تعاريف.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Tariffnoun
A cartel of commerce.
Etymology: perhaps a Spanish word; tarif, Fr.
This branch of our trade was regulated by a tariff, or declaration of the duties of import and export. Addison.
Wikipedia
Tariff
A tariff is a tax imposed by the government of a country or by a supranational union on imports or exports of goods. Besides being a source of revenue for the government, import duties can also be a form of regulation of foreign trade and policy that taxes foreign products to encourage or safeguard domestic industry. Protective tariffs are among the most widely used instruments of protectionism, along with import quotas and export quotas and other non-tariff barriers to trade. Tariffs can be fixed (a constant sum per unit of imported goods or a percentage of the price) or variable (the amount varies according to the price). Taxing imports means people are less likely to buy them as they become more expensive. The intention is that they buy local products instead, boosting their country's economy. Tariffs therefore provide an incentive to develop production and replace imports with domestic products. Tariffs are meant to reduce pressure from foreign competition and reduce the trade deficit. They have historically been justified as a means to protect infant industries and to allow import substitution industrialization. Tariffs may also be used to rectify artificially low prices for certain imported goods, due to 'dumping', export subsidies or currency manipulation. There is near unanimous consensus among economists that tariffs have a negative effect on economic growth and economic welfare, while free trade and the reduction of trade barriers has a positive effect on economic growth. Although trade liberalization can sometimes result in large and unequally distributed losses and gains, and can, in the short run, cause significant economic dislocation of workers in import-competing sectors, free trade has advantages of lowering costs of goods and services for both producers and consumers.
ChatGPT
tariff
A tariff is a tax or duty imposed on imported or exported goods and services by the government, often to protect domestic industries from foreign competition. It raises the price of imported goods, making them less competitive compared to domestically produced items. Tariffs can also be used as a political tool to penalize other countries.
Webster Dictionary
Tariffnoun
a schedule, system, or scheme of duties imposed by the government of a country upon goods imported or exported; as, a revenue tariff; a protective tariff; Clay's compromise tariff. (U. S. 1833)
Tariffnoun
the duty, or rate of duty, so imposed; as, the tariff on wool; a tariff of two cents a pound
Tariffnoun
any schedule or system of rates, changes, etc.; as, a tariff of fees, or of railroad fares
Tariffverb
to make a list of duties on, as goods
Wikidata
Tariff
A tariff is either a tax on imports or exports, or a list of prices for such things as rail service, bus routes, and electrical usage. The meaning in is now the more common meaning. The meaning in is historically earlier. The meaning in developed from a tabular list of tax rates for different import goods.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Tariff
tar′if, n. a list of the duties, &c., fixed by law on merchandise: a list of charges, fees, or prices. [Fr.,—Sp.,—Ar. ta‛rīf, giving information, from ‛arafa, to explain.]
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
tariff
List of duties payable upon exported and imported goods.
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Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'tariff' in Nouns Frequency: #2645
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of tariff in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of tariff in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of tariff in a Sentence
The fact that the White House has increased the tariff rate suggests that the probability has risen that tariffs will increase on the remaining roughly $ 300 billion in imports from China that the US has not yet targeted.
A 25 % tariff could effectively shut US chemical companies out of the Chinese market.
You can find tariff-resistant businesses that are in niches, but it takes work to find them.
They've been trying to argue to both the United States and to other countries that they are making progress on reform, and they're opening up, they're intervening less heavily in their economy, so a lot of the non-tariff retaliation probably undermines that image that they're trying to project.
We had to create a whole strategy of what-ifs, if there is a tariff, do we shut factories down ? Do we move them ? These are hard things to make quick decisions on. You can't just build a new glass factory in Portland.
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- تعاريف, تعريفةArabic
- arancel, tarifaSpanish
- periä, tariffi, tullimaksu, hinnasto, tulliFinnish
- תעריףHebrew
- մաքսատուրք, տարիֆ, գնացուցակArmenian
- tariffaItalian
- 関税Japanese
- ბაჟიGeorgian
- 관세Korean
- tariefDutch
- tariffNorwegian
- [[облагать]] [[пошлина, прайс-лист, прейскурант, [[шкала]] [[ставка, пошлина, расценка, тарифRussian
- సుంఖాలుTelugu
- ٹیرفUrdu
- 關稅Chinese
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