Sentence examples for tariff hike from inspiring English sources

A planned tariff hike is about to make rice and medicine more expensive, particularly in the east.

These falling prices significantly worsened the impact of a tariff hike which was by no means the steepest in recent American history.

The recent announcement of a tariff hike by gas and electricity supplier SSE - the first such move by one of the Big Six energy firms this year - has raised fears of upward pressure on inflation.

Trump himself has repeatedly threatened to impose a 45percenttariffff hike on all Chinese imports.

If he expects other countries meekly to accept tariff hikes, he will be sorely disappointed.

David Cameron announced in October that levies would be rolled back, resulting in tariff hikes by suppliers being scaled down.

Implementing forty-five-per-cent tariff hikes on Chinese imports will not turn back the clock, either.

A private contract to supply water in the city of Cochabamba was torn up after street protests about tariff hikes in 2000 an incident which became known as the "water war".

Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire, for example, broke with their West Africa group and signed a stop-gap "interim" deal that will avert tariff hikes on products such as Ivorian bananas or Ghanaian processed cocoa.

These include the use of what look like front companies to distribute gas for Gazprom in nearby countries; puzzling variations in the prices it charges other European gas distributors; a discrepancy between tariff hikes and revenue increases; and suspiciously expensive construction projects.

The result was a round of reciprocal tariff hikes elsewhere, and a disastrous collapse in international trade.This was exactly the sort of thing the ministers of the G20 sought to avoid when they met in Washington late last year, agreeing not to devise new trade barriers as the world economy fizzles.