Sentence examples for tariffs as from inspiring English sources

But in earlier decades Britain had prospered behind manufacturing tariffs as high as 55%.

It doesn't charge tariffs as steep as Craftsteak's or the BLT empire's.

Administration officials have defended the tariffs as necessary to allow American steel makers breathing room to reorganize and cut costs.

Under the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, the president can raise tariffs as necessary to strengthen national security.

Last month, a government trade panel recommended tariffs as high as 40percentt on some steel imports.

For them, it would still be cheaper to ship to the United States, with tariffs as high as about 36 percent.

American trade arbiters have duly found such injury in steel, and the steel lobby is looking for tariffs as big as 40%.That would be disastrous.

Several sectors of Canada's agricultural industry — dairy, poultry, eggs and pork — are protected by tariffs as high as 300 percent, as well as by import quotas.

The E.U. said in March that it might apply tariffs as high as 26percentt on some steel products to protect its manufacturers.

Many of those present criticized the president's Medicare plan as too expensive and his erstwhile support for steel tariffs as inefficient, several participants said.

In an effort to protect local industry a decade ago, the Mexican government placed punitive tariffs as high as 1,105 percent on Chinese fabric, clothing and shoes.