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Definition of Import duty
1. Noun. A duty imposed on imports.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Import Duty
Literary usage of Import duty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Treaties and Agreements with and Concerning China, 1894-1919: A Collection by John Van Antwerp MacMurray (1921)
"Foreign goods on which import duty, or, native goods on which export duty, has
been levied ... Opium going to the interior must pay import duty and likin. ..."
2. Treaties and Agreements with and Concerning China, 1894-1919: A Collection by John Van Antwerp MacMurray (1921)
"Foreign goods on which import duty, or, native goods on which export duty, has
been levied ... Opium going to the interior must pay import duty and likin. ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"It was included in the programme of import duty reforms of the Whig Government
in 1841, and fell with its propound ers in the general election of that year. ..."
4. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1850)
"On rice the Government proposes to reduce the import duty from 2 ... The import
duty on linen yarn, raw and unbleached, is increased from 2 thaler» to 4 ..."
5. The History of the United States of America by Richard Hildreth (1880)
"At length, though not without very evident reluctance, the proposed import duty
of five per cent., as a fund for the support of federal credit, ..."
6. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1850)
"On rice the Government proposes to reduce the import duty from 2 thalers (6s.
... The import duty on linen yarn, raw and unbleached, is increased from 2 ..."
7. Laws and Ordinances of New Netherland, 1638-1674 by New York (State)., Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan (1868)
"ORDINANCE Of the Director General and Council of New Netherland explaining what
Goods are subject to import duty. Passed 16 April, 1658. [NT Col MSS. ..."
8. Propositions Concerning Protection and Free Trade by Willard Phillips (1850)
"import duty is less burthensome, and is not attended by greater inequality than
revenue raised in other ways— Free trade pretends that it is unequal, etc. ..."
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