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• n  a government tax on imports or exports
• v  charge a tariff
  tariff imported goods

• The question of high or low tariff, long a battleground between Republicans and Democrats, has in recent years lost some of its pristine vigor.
• For the formation of a permanent association, for an attempt to take the tariff out of politics, for supporting the present tariff act, the Western Tariff Association met in .
• Still, the pro-tariff mania that swept Washington 55 years ago remains a danger.

• duty

News & Articles

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• Ecuador heats rhetoric as Obama downplays Snowden
  Ecuador's President Rafael Correa said Thursday it is renouncing tariff benefits on hundreds of millions of dollars in trade that are up for renewal by the U.S. Congress at a moment when Ecuador faces U.S. pressure to avoid granting asylum to National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden.
  June 28, 2013 - Santa Fe New Mexican
• Ecuador renounces trade benefits from US Congress
  Ecuador said Thursday it is renouncing tariff benefits on hundreds of millions of dollars in trade that are up for renewal by the U.S. Congress. The announcement by Communications Minister Fernando Alvarez ...
  June 27, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• Largest-in-the-Nation Feed-in Tariff Solar Program Kicks Off Today
  LOS ANGELES, June 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- With the flip of a switch, Los Angeles officials today inaugurated the nation's largest rooftop solar Feed-in Tariff (FiT) program, enabling hundreds of building ...
  June 26, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Carmel Tebbutt in Sydney Morning Herald
  We'll await the advice from the taskforce,Ms Tebbutt said. "It's got to be a fair and reasonable tariff for people who do return electricity to the grid and it shouldn't place a disproportionate burden on all electricity consumers"
• Christine Milne in Sydney Morning Herald
  A feed-in tariff gives long-term market guarantees separate from government subsidies and relieves governments from having to find new cash each budget,Senator Milne said. "The best way to sustainably support the growth of renewables is to...
• Peter Mandelson in International Herald Tribune
  We've decided to help the negotiations this week get off to a strong start by raising the average cut in our agricultural tariff,Mandelson said. "That is a very considerable improvement on our own part, but of course it's light years away...