Sentence examples for tariff war from inspiring English sources

A "tariff war" between the two countries lasted until 1898.

There was a tariff war between France and Italy.

Southern produce needed markets abroad, and the south was very badly hit by the tariff war with France.

Seventy-five yeago ago, the world's leaders collected in the Hall of Fossils in London's Geological Museum with the aim of ending a tariff war.

Germany launched a "tariff war" on Poland, and the Deutsche Bank sold large quantities of the new Polish currency in the money markets of Berlin and Vienna.

Quietly, without a shot fired in a tariff war, Russia's eastern third has followed the rest of Asia into China's economic orbit.

International agreements to limit tariffs, built over the post-war decades, are a safeguard against all-out tariff wars.

If Trump carries out his threat to start tariff wars with global partners, "the world will be poorer as a whole" and the consequent "effects on inequality are unlikely to be the ones that Mr Trump's working-class supporters expect".

According to Ben Bernanke, "Economists still agree that Smoot-Hawley and the ensuing tariff wars were highly counterproductive and contributed to the depth and length of the global Depression".

He was referring to the White House's latest plan to put up to $12 billion taxpayer dollars into those sectors of American agriculture hit hardest by Trump's tariff wars.

As the economic historian (and free trader) William Bernstein puts it in his book A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World, Between 1929 and 1932, real GDP fell 17percentt worldwide, and by 26percentt in the United States, but most economic historians now believe that only a miniscule part of that huge loss of both world GDP and the United States' GDP can be ascribed to the tariff wars..