How to Use tariff in a Sentence

tariff

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  • The White House has said the tariff exemption will serve as a bridge while the U.S. sector ramps up.
    — Fox News, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Yet the trade deficit increased and tariffs raised prices for consumers.
    — WSJ, 30 June 2023
  • There will be two main effects of this tariff, Cosbey said.
    — Quartz, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The Trump campaign has not specified how high this tariff would be.
    — Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2023
  • The country should roll back tariffs, strike more free trade deals with major economies and trade blocs, and cut back on the use of anti-dumping.
    — Time, 28 July 2023
  • Very few Chinese cars are on the road in this country thanks to extremely high tariffs.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The government has curbed exports of wheat, rice and sugar, and may scrap a 40% tariff on wheat imports.
    — Time, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Narrative is one of many tariffs that the world exacts from the uprooted.
    — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2023
  • His view was that tariffs are risky, but that Trump could be trusted to negotiate for a better deal for the U.S.
    — Politifact Staff Writer, Dallas News, 22 Aug. 2023
  • But Nippon never used gimmicks to avoid the Trump tariffs on steel imports.
    — Wilbur Ross, WSJ, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Look no further than a GOP Senate bill that would enact a carbon tariff—i.e., a new tax.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 19 Nov. 2023
  • For years, the two sides have sought but struggled to introduce a tariff-free system to boost their respective economies.
    — Anna Cooban, CNN, 6 Dec. 2022
  • The tariffs are designed to be high enough to discourage Russian imports.
    — Samuel Petrequin, Fortune Europe, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Wine sales will not return to the same level for the company even if the high tariffs are dropped, its chief executive said in May.
    — Fox News, 18 Aug. 2023
  • An initial spike in steel prices after the tariffs were announced was short-lived, though prices surged to new highs during the Covid-19 pandemic.
    — Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
  • But he’s said little about taxes, beyond pledges to raise tariffs for all imports and to cut the corporate tax rate.
    — Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Also likely before year’s end is the verdict of a lengthy review of the Trump China tariffs that could result in the lifting of some levies.
    — David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2023
  • Though the Biden administration has kept many Trump-era tariffs in place, some want to raise them further.
    — Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Again, the carbon border adjustment is just a tariff, plain and simple.
    — Robert Goulder, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The tariffs were removed by President Biden, but prices have continued to rise.
    — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Others in the wine trade scoffed at Sherry-Lehmann’s claims that undelivered wine had been held up by tariff issues.
    — James B. Stewart, New York Times, 25 May 2023
  • One example is the beverage industry, which has had to swallow the cost of tariffs on aluminum for its cans.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2023
  • That the rate of adoption of renewable systems will slow under the successor tariff does not mean adoption will cease.
    — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Jan. 2024
  • However, Stewart noted that the tariffs were lifted more than two years ago, and many of the same wines are now readily available in the United States.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 26 May 2023
  • Most of the tariffs still remain under the Biden administration.
    — Laura He, CNN, 24 Aug. 2023
  • It was meant to ensure customs agents weren't wasting their time doing tariff assessments on the most trivial items.
    — Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
  • No mention of the sectional application of U.S. tariffs at that time?
    — Erik W. Matson, National Review, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Instead, for example, Washington could hold off on tariffs for six months, giving Beijing a chance to act to avoid them.
    — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The former leader reshaped relations between the world’s two largest economies with massive trade tariffs while in office four years ago.
    — Simone McCarthy, CNN, 10 Mar. 2024
  • The rethinking of trade goes beyond the simple issue of lowering tariffs and signing broad pacts.
    — Paul Wiseman, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2023

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