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The phrase "add a surcharge" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an additional fee or charge that is applied to a base price for a service or product.
Example: "Due to increased shipping costs, we will need to add a surcharge to your order total."
Alternatives: "impose an extra fee" or "levy an additional charge."
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— which effectively means merchants cannot add a surcharge to any transaction.
"We have absolutely no plans to add a surcharge for credit card purchases".
Some hotels also add so-called resort and amenity fees, and some add a surcharge for groundskeeping.
Ideally, the first step would be to add a surcharge on purchases of coal that account for adverse side effects caused by its extraction, processing, and use.
One proposal, by union leaders, would add a surcharge of seven-tenths of 1percentt on the tax rate for people earning more than $100,000 a year.
Almost all add a surcharge -- usually $50 to $100 monthly -- for oversize vehicles, a classification that often includes full-size pickups, vans and S.U.V.'s.
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(Mr. Cheney favors adding a surcharge to participants' water bills).
He has not added a surcharge to his delivery fees, which he said range from $65 to $85.
Both put the charge into effect Feb. 1; neither adds a surcharge to senior coupons.
That museum occasionally adds a surcharge, but not for all exhibitions, and not always $3.
(At most of these, the food was included in the price of passage; a few added a surcharge).
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