The importer was willing to pay a high tariff on the goods. From LearnThat.org.
tariff imported goods. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The natural strategic tariff is a bet that it would. From Wordnik.com. [Ian Fletcher: Is a Flat Tariff the Answer to America's Trade Mess?] Reference
The average tariff is now down to about 10 per cent. From Wordnik.com. [Free Trade in Historical Perspective] Reference
The OERC announced about the no change in tariff on Sunday. From Wordnik.com. [No hike in power tariff: Orissa Electricity Regulatory Commission] Reference
I think that we, in tariff matters, ought to be opportunists. From Wordnik.com. [Relations of the United States with Canada and Great Britain] Reference
UPDATE: "PGL" recasts Lee's argument in tariff-vs. -quota terms. From Wordnik.com. [An Idea only an Economist Could Love, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
The piastre tariff is always worth double of the piastre current. From Wordnik.com. [Three Months in the Soudan] Reference
In practice a tariff is just going to help producers at the cost of consumers. From Wordnik.com. [Oil Import Tariff?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
To compare the enforcement of U.S. law to highly protectionist tariff is utter nonsense. From Wordnik.com. [The Smoot-Hawley Fence, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
The tariff is something that can be too high in a particular item, and it can be too low. From Wordnik.com. [The Nineteen Twenty-Eight Budget] Reference
According to Tim Harford's book, the average tariff is 2.9% -- i.e., practically nothing. From Wordnik.com. [Do Voters' Biases Bias Policy?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Of the options, a tariff is fastest working, most targeted, least costly and most efficient. From Wordnik.com. [Oil Import Tariff?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
The natural strategic tariff is more ideologically palatable than most other tariff solutions. From Wordnik.com. [Ian Fletcher: Is a Flat Tariff the Answer to America's Trade Mess?] Reference
The difference in tariff in favour of their manufacturers in the Philippines is still greater. From Wordnik.com. [The Progress of Imperial Preference] Reference
We think the only reason to have the secondary tariff is to protect the taxpayer, not the industry. From Wordnik.com. [Joel Velasco: Fiscal Responsibility and Bipartisanship are Easy to Achieve on Biofuels Policy] Reference
According to the CFE web page, there are about 6 regions, and in each region the tariff is different. From Wordnik.com. [Broadband Internet Service] Reference
It is understood that each percentage point increase in tariff translates to 2. 5%-3% rise in earnings. From Wordnik.com. Reference
UTL has launched UTL Min-50 Winter Offer, reducing the call tariff to 50 paisa per two minutes without taxes. From Wordnik.com. [News] Reference
A regional incentive policy is a desirable corrective to the centralizing tendencies inherent in tariff policies. From Wordnik.com. [A Nova Scotian View of Confederation] Reference
As I said in the editorial quoted by our chairman, the tariff is not an Alberta, problem; it is a national problem. From Wordnik.com. [A Canada Forward Policy] Reference
This was made possible by progressive declines in tariff barriers and virtually uninterrupted growth in world trade. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Economy] Reference
Another objection to a tariff is that if American industry is granted tariff protection, it will just slumber behind it. From Wordnik.com. [Ian Fletcher: Is a Flat Tariff the Answer to America's Trade Mess?] Reference
Government action can be taken to amortize these excess costs, and Taxation by tariff is far preferable to Regulation. lgl. From Wordnik.com. [Economic Education, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Another objection to a tariff is that our trading partners would just shrug it off by increasing subsidies to their exporters. From Wordnik.com. [Ian Fletcher: Is a Flat Tariff the Answer to America's Trade Mess?] Reference
But the solar feed-in tariff and the renewable heat incentive, subsidising biomass plants and CHP boilers, are likely to be scaled back. From Wordnik.com. [Port cuts 'to cost 60,000 green jobs'] Reference
Similarly, changes in tariff legislation should be seen as but one part of a broader economic policy designed to rationalize our economy. From Wordnik.com. [A New "National Policy" for Canada] Reference
It is often said that the tariff is the specialty of Pennsylvania. From Wordnik.com. [The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 5: 1858-1862] Reference
The tariff is a tax put on all foreign products brought into this country. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 19, March 18, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls] Reference
The general answered: "The tariff was a purely local issue in Pennsylvania.". From Wordnik.com. [My Memories of Eighty Years] Reference
It is thus plain how, in a secondary way, the tariff is a cause of the trusts. From Wordnik.com. [Monopolies and the People] Reference
The tariff is a shilling an hour, to which great artists usually add an omnibus fare. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellanies] Reference
An indirect tax, just as this nation pays its taxes, and the tariff is the very thing!. From Wordnik.com. [The Cheerful Smugglers] Reference
The only mitigation of my desire for a prompt revision of the tariff is the confidence. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
Carriages are dearer than in Paris by our new tariff, which is an item important to me. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II] Reference
The tariff is a payment per kilowatt-hour for electricity generated by a renewable resource. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference
They all recognized that the liquor question once out of the way, the tariff was the next great. From Wordnik.com. [A Spoil of Office A Story of the Modern West] Reference
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