Sentence examples for initial tariff from inspiring English sources

His initial tariff was 10 years.

After Trump's initial tariff announcement last week, the European Union quickly threatened to hit back.

The initial tariff rates were set by Ed Miliband, then energy secretary, in 2010 based on the cost of solar installations at that time.

In other words, though the subsidy has come down sharply from 2010, which partly reflects a real decline in the price of solar power and partly reflects the extraordinary generosity of the initial tariff, we're a long way from grid parity.

When Cedar learned its CBs — as well as the marine radios it makes for boaters — would be included on the initial tariff list targeting $50 billion in imports, it applied for an exemption and imported additional inventory by costly airfreight to have stock on hand before the tariffs took effect.

Problem was, China wasn't importing much steel to the United States, so Trump adjusted that initial tariff strategy and made them global in nature, before adjusting the strategy again to provide coverage for some but not all allies.

Transener's initial tariffs had been set before the company's sale in 1993, and were to be reviewed every 5 years, starting in 1998.

It is about 3.2 million tons, or one-quarter of the imports that were subject to the initial tariffs, not one-quarter of all imports, which would be about 8 million tons.

Those initial tariffs were intended to largely spare American consumers while targeting imports that the administration sees as a threat to national security — like nuclear reactor parts, spacecraft and aeronautical gear.

It is possible that the initial tariffs on $50 billion of Chinese imports could be in place longer, until it is clear that China has kept its promises of wholesale structural changes.

In a statement, Robert Lighthizer, the trade adviser who is carrying out an investigation into Chinese practices, described the president's threat as "an appropriate response," saying China should have responded to the initial tariffs levied by the United States by changing its behavior.