to increase the prices'
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to expand world trade by reducing tariffs
to expand international trade by mutual reduction of tariffs.
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Tariffs provide revenue for the country buying the imported goods. If a country wants to export goods to a country, they have to pay a tariff(tax) to be allowed to do so. China pays very low tariffs to the US on the goods they export to us.
To allow American industries to grow..
To protect Northern factories pre-civil war, from going out of buissness.
The purpose of a tariff is to restrict trade. They make the price of imported goods and services higher, causing them to be more expensive to buyers.
The plural form of the noun 'tariff' is tariffs.
the tariffs increased:]
protective tariffs - apex
They allow their producers to sell products more cheaply than foreign competitors