A tariff is a kind of tax on goods a country imports or exports. If you want to buy a European made car in the U.S., the price will include tariffs the government adds to the price of imported vehicles.
A schedule, system, or scheme of duties imposed by the government of a country upon goods imported or exported;
Noun
a government tax on imports or exports; "they signed a treaty to lower duties on trade between their countries"
Verb
charge a tariff; "tariff imported goods"
n.
A schedule, system, or scheme of duties imposed by the
government of a country upon goods imported or exported; as, a revenue
tariff; a protective tariff; Clay's compromise tariff. (U. S. 1833).
n.
The duty, or rate of duty, so imposed; as, the tariff on
wool; a tariff of two cents a pound.
n.
Any schedule or system of rates, changes, etc.; as, a
tariff of fees, or of railroad fares.
v. t.
To make a list of duties on, as goods.
Tariff
Tariff
A schedule, system, or scheme of duties imposed by the government of a country upon goods imported or exported;
To make a list of duties on, as goods.
Usage Examples
The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.
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Other Usage ExamplesThere is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.