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Jhasua Razo, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2025
With Britain’s strongest sector, finance, benefiting from higher interest rates, and Germany’s motor vehicles and parts, struggling with tariffs and weak demand, the rivalry between the two economies is one to watch.
—Adam Gale, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2025
Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2025
Sports gear is both largely imported from China and heavily tariffed.
—Justin Worland, Time, 17 Oct. 2025
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Noun
The November 10 deadline for a trade truce is looming, lest tariffs surge again.
—Jhasua Razo, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2025
With Britain’s strongest sector, finance, benefiting from higher interest rates, and Germany’s motor vehicles and parts, struggling with tariffs and weak demand, the rivalry between the two economies is one to watch.
—Adam Gale, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2025
Verb
Buses will also be tariffed at 10% as part of the action.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2025
Sports gear is both largely imported from China and heavily tariffed.
—Justin Worland, Time, 17 Oct. 2025
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“Tariff.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tariff. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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tariff
noun
tar·iff
ˈtar-əf 
1
a
: a schedule of duties imposed by a government on imported or in some countries exported goods
b
: a duty or rate of duty imposed in such a schedule
2
: a document filed with the appropriate government agency that sets forth the rates, charges, and other provisions pertaining to services furnished by a business (as a carrier) or public utility
Etymology
Noun
Italian tariffa, from Arabic taʽrīf notification
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