high tariff

collocation in English

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high
adjective
uk
/haɪ/us
/haɪ/
(especially of things that are not living) being a large distance from top to bottom or a long way above the ground, or having the stated distance from top ...
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tariff
noun[C]
uk
/ˈtær.ɪf/us
/ˈter.ɪf/
a charge or list of charges either for services or on goods entering ...
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(Definition ofhighandtarifffrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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They each struck out against the inequities inherent in the tariff system and denounced the increasing governmental activism associated withhightariffrates.
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For example, many developing countries sought to promote industrialization behindhightariffwalls during the 1970s and 1980s.
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Ahightariffprotected the nascent industry.
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The reform dismantled the quantitative restrictions used in the earlier regime and reduced thehightariffrates.
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It often played a key role in linking these different scales of activity, not least by supplyinghightariffgoods to smugglers.
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Taft's commitment to lead his party to abandon itshightarifforthodoxy was courageous.
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They have ahightariffpolicy, and there are the pressure groups.
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People should not be held up by thishightariff.
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Compared with thehightariff, the preference is so slight as to mean nothing in practice.
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They need to live in ahightariffsituation.
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To protect industry byhightariffcontrols would only make the problem that much worse.
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This country a century ago enjoyed the protection of veryhightariffduties upon imports.
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Theirhightariffand buoyant internal production make it difficult for them to receive imports.
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The dollar market for lace is completely cut out by ahightariffwall.
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Experience has shown that ahightariffpolicy for agriculture does not work.
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They have had these tremendous powers behind ahightariff.
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I do not believe that internationalism resides behindhightariffwalls.
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The effect of thehightariffwas not appreciated.
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