Both tariffs and taxes are duties levied on different services as per statute or legislation. They mean the same thing today although there may have been differences at one time, when the word 'tariff' had originated.
Taxes that are placed on imports and exports are referred to as tariffs. A debate exists regarding whether or not high tariffs help or hurt a nation's economy.
tariffs
Only collected on imported goods
There were no income taxes in the United States in 1791. The government supported itself at that time through excise taxes and tariffs.
Tariffs, or taxes on foreign imports, can be helpful to a country's economy by blocking competition from other countries. However, often when one country places a tariff on foreign goods, the country places its own tariff on the first country. Tariffs are not appreciated by the country on which it is being placed.
the government passed tariffs to raise taxes
duties
They didn't call it anything but taxes or just tariffs
Only collected on imported goods
Tariffs are taxes imposed on Imports and Exports.
Tariffs are taxes imposed on Imports and Exports.
Taxes that are placed on imports and exports are referred to as tariffs. A debate exists regarding whether or not high tariffs help or hurt a nation's economy.
tariffs
these are taxes on imported goods
tariffs
tariffs
Individual states in the United States are not able to impose their own tariffs, in the conventional sense of taxes on imports or exports. That power is reserved by the Contitution to the Federal government.However, individual states can impose other taxes, such as sales taxes, and some people might also call those tariffs, simply because they are taxes.