"create costs" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the expenses incurred when creating something. For example, "We need to consider the cost of materials and labor to create costs before beginning the project."
The parties involved in an exchange may inadvertently create costs for others not connected with it.
And although a taxation system will almost certainly create costs for industry, the level of reductions in emissions will be completely uncertain.
Psychological trauma dims tens of millions of lives around the world and helps create costs of at least $42 billion a year in the United States alone.
To ease the burden of cuts in financing, lawmakers could relax state rules and regulations that create costs that local school districts must bear on their own or with limited help from the state.
Moreover, mandates that create costs for employers but create nearly equal benefits for employees should not induce companies to change their size, because (barring minimum-wage regulations) employers can pass on the costs of those regulations to their employees in the form of lower cash wages.
Institutional and regulatory barriers such as visas or the hukou system in China Chan and Zhang (1999) create costs.
For example:GOP fund-raisers and allies must create cost-effective independent expenditure groups for House and Senate races.Easier said than done.
The distributors chosen must create a sales force that is dedicated to marketing Diageo products, a move that Diageo said would create cost savings and increase efficiencies.
The miners say the deal would create cost savings of as much as $10 billion, allowing them to sell ore more cheaply.
The AirTrain had been scheduled to begin limited service later this year, but the accident was expected to create cost millions of dollars and months of delay.
But even here in the United States, Medicare and private insurers are already experimenting with new ways to create cost-justified payment systems for medical treatments.
