Example sentences for: tariff

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

  • Some combination of factors that we still don't fully understand--lower tariff barriers, improved telecommunications, cheaper air transport--reduced the disadvantages of producing in developing countries.

  • When domestic channels reduce lead times to market, particularly with basic and fashion-basic products, the comparative advantage of imports declines—despite the lower wage costs of foreign competitors, elimination of quotas on imports, and tariff reductions.

  • He wants the United States to adopt an "emergency tariff" of between 10 percent and 15 percent on imports to force other countries to abandon their mercantile trading strategies.

  • A breakeven post with a uniform tariff would charge its average cost of 10 cents a piece for delivery throughout the country.

  • These measures of vulnerability make sense, of course, only with a uniform tariff constraint, and more generally when geographical cost oriented tariffs are not applied.


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