protective tariff

noun

1. a tariff levied on imports to protect the domestic economy rather than to raise revenue

protective tariff

1. A duty imposed on imports to raise their price, making them less attractive to consumers and thus protecting domestic industries from foreign competition.

Example Sentences

A tax on foreign goods for the sake of revenue only had satisfied everybody; but a protective tariff was unpopular with the South.

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Since all sensible men know that the evil lies in a protective tariff and the bulky catalogue of monopoly.

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The great measures brought forward were a national bank, internal improvement, and a protective tariff.

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It is interesting to observe that Taylor brands the protective tariff as one of the evils of Marshall's Nationalist philosophy.

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By what reasoning is a protective tariff made Constitutional?

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