Sentence examples for as a tariff from inspiring English sources

A list of all import duties is usually known as a tariff schedule.

Having threatened "appropriate action" if the EU went ahead with its plan, America may even be considering a retaliatory measure, such as a tariff on European carriers.

Much has been made in recent months about the overvaluation of the yuan and how it simultaneously subsidises Chinese exports while serving as a tariff on all imports.

The rise will be implemented as a tariff, allowing the government to bypass opposition to the fuel price hike in the senate.

Yet rather than taking any difficult, strategic decisions, the government of President Vicente Fox has spent the past few months producing a tranche of subsidies, price supports and anti-dumping measures (such as a tariff of 46.5% on Yanqui Golden Delicious apples) to appease the farming lobby.

The latter provides an estimate of the border increment in transportation cost as a tariff equivalent.

Other measures outlined by the CMA on Thursday included the introduction of a price cap for four million customers on pre-payment meters, as well as removing a tariff cap that restricts suppliers to offering four price rates.

The European Coal and Steel Community, founded in the early 1950s essentially as a tariff-cutting initiative, was joined by, and later merged with, the European Economic Community EECC) in 1957.

America will therefore need credible and well-worked-out contingency plans to impose a tariff on China and function, if need be, as a tariff-protected economy for a few years at least.

Early British support for the South was further buttressed by something as mundane as a protective tariff — the Morrill Tariff — approved by Congress on March 2 , 1861

For model purposes, I employ treatment cost estimates derived from two empirical studies, each of which employed an audit, as opposed to a tariff, approach.