The phrase "import fee" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a fee or tax imposed on goods that are brought into a country from another country. Example: The cost of the product was reasonable, but I had to factor in the additional import fees when deciding whether to buy it online from a foreign retailer.
Prospects for an oil import fee are not bright.
] Doubts on Oil-Import Fee Mr. Volcker also expressed strong doubts about the desirability of imposing an import fee on oil.
A Republican president actually imposed an import fee on oil to curb consumption!
Only one possibility worried me: that the U.S would impose a substantial oil import fee.
At this preliminary stage, the most likely combinations of revenue sources appear to be an oil import fee, probably coupled with some type of gasoline or energy tax, a capital gains tax cut combined with an increase in the top income tax rate for high-income taxpayers, and excise taxes on wine, beer, liquor and cigarettes.
"If Bush were the leader he claims to be, he would impose an import fee right now to keep gasoline prices high, and reduce the tax rate on Social Security for low-income workers, so they would get an offsetting increase in income," argued Philip Verleger Jr., the veteran energy economist.
In a foreign trade zone, import fees and other forms of border protection are generally waived to reduce production costs.
There are significant tariffs or import fees on used computers that make it almost cheaper to buy new computers in Ecuador.
The newly rusticated tub and heater, designed for a company called Feather Down Farms, which installs tents on working farms to give city slickers a taste of green acres, weigh 187 pounds and cost around $6,500, including import fees.
The pact rolled back import fees on Colombian flowers, while allowing U.S. companies to export products such as corn, soybean, wheat and oil to Colombia without paying any tariffs.
During Nike's first decade as a company, Knight received a letter from U.S. Customs demanding Nike pay $25 million in import fees because the shoes were manufactured outside the country.
