tariffs

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The GWU said the tariffs were a double blow for workers, undermining their purchasing power and threatening their jobs.

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  1. noun A list or system of duties imposed by a government on imported or exported goods.
  2. noun A duty or duties so imposed.
  3. noun A schedule of prices or fees.

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  • Health bosses said they had already noticed a rise in complaints after the tariffs were abolished at the Western General and St John's Hospital in Livingston.
  • And what happened was that the tariffs were also reduced. —  Democracy Now!
  • The GWU said the tariffs were a double blow for workers, undermining their purchasing power and threatening their jobs. —  timesofmalta.com
  • Instituted by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to protect an endangered domestic auto industry (whose sales were expected to shrink by up to 50\% in 2009), the tariffs were a blow to merchants in the Far Eastern port of Vladivostok who benefited from a nationwide commerce in used Japanese vehicles. —  GlobalResearch.ca
  • The current economic model forced on Haiti - minimal taxes or tariffs, an anaemic state forced to service crippling odious debt while 80\% of its health, education, food and water services are run by non-Haitian organizations - has failed.
 

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