Definition of Tariff

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Tariff

A tariff may be imposed solely for, and with reference to, the production of revenue (called a revenue tariff, or tariff for revenue, or for the artificial fostering of home industries (a projective tariff), or as a means of coercing foreign governments, as in case of retaliatory tariff.

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).

The duty, or rate of duty, so imposed; as, the tariff on wool; a tariff of two cents a pound.

Any schedule or system of rates, changes, etc.; as, a tariff of fees, or of railroad fares.

To make a list of duties on, as goods.

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Tariff Quotations

I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.
William McKinley

The biggest trade that Germany and Britain had was with each other, in the prewar period; I think I'm right in that. Two highly industrialized nations had the most trade with each other, and it wasn't tariff policies alone that made trade relations better for both of them.
W. Averell Harriman

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.
Alan Keyes

There 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.
Ida Tarbell

In 1833, protection was abandoned, and a tariff was established by which it was provided that we should, in a few years, have a system of merely revenue duties.
Henry Charles Carey

I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I opposed him and voted for Adams. I favored a protective tariff.
Ezra Cornell

Tariff Translations

tariff in French is tarif, tarifaire
tariff in German is Tarif, verzollen, Tarif
tariff in Italian is addaziare, tariffa
tariff in Spanish is tarifa, arancel, aduanar
tariff in Swedish is tulltaxa, taxa

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