Example sentences for: duty-free

How can you use “duty-free” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Note that because of the duty-free situation, good bargains may be found in European china, including Spode and Wedgwood.

  • Since Hong Kong is a duty-free port and charges no sales tax, goods are cheaper here than in the country where they were made.

  • The full incorporation of Spain into the European Economic Community in 1990 brought the end of the duty-free ports status, but saw certain special allowances for the Canary Islands with respect to agriculture, fishing and taxes.

  • Notice that, except at the airport, no “tax-free” or “duty-free” signs are allowed in Singapore, since this advantage applies all over the island.

  • In 1877, France bought back Saint-Barthélemy from Sweden for 320,000 gold francs (Louis XVI having ceded the little island 93 years earlier to his friend King Gustav III in return for duty-free trading rights in Gothenburg).


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