A duty imposed on imports to raise their price, making them less attractive to consumers and thus protecting domestic industries from foreign competition.
protective tariff
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The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
a tariff imposed to protect domestic firms from import competition
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 | DeBow's Review (literature) |
| Tariff (business term) |
| Nelson Dingley (American statesman) |
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- DeBow's Review (literature)
- Tariff (business term)
- Nelson Dingley (American statesman)
- Protect [Protection]
- Taft, William Howard (History)
- protective
- Friends of Domestic Industry (American history)
- Henry Charles Carey (American economist)
- Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley (Canadian statesman)
- Abbott Lawrence (American industrialist & statesman)
- Boies Penrose (American politician & statesman)
- Calhoun, John C. (History)
- Era of Good Feeling (American history)
- Normalcy (American history)
