Synonyms of tariff

tariff

noun

as in tax

a payment that must be made to the government in order to import or export certain goods

The Townshend Acts, which imposed a tariff on many goods imported to North America, indirectly led to the American Revolution.

Synonyms & Similar Words

• tax
• levy
• imposition
• impost
• excise
• income tax
• duty
• capitation
• property tax
• poll tax
• sales tax
• single tax
• custom(s)
• withholding tax
• hidden tax
• surtax
• tribute
• toll
• value-added tax
• personal tax
• assessment
• direct tax
• supertax
• surcharge
• sin tax
• estate tax
• inheritance tax
• death tax
• flat tax
• proportional tax

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of tariff

This year brought two new adverse factors — President Donald Trump’s tariffs that could generate retaliatory tariffs, depressing export markets, and Trump’s sweeps of undocumented immigrants, who are a major portion of the agricultural labor force. —Dan Walters, Mercury News, 25 June 2025

Amid the tariff debates in March, Trump again attempted to use the annexing notion as a bargaining chip. —Callum Sutherland, Time, 25 June 2025

Overall levels of market uncertainty have declined compared to their peaks in the immediate aftermath of Trump’s on-again, off-again tariff policy. —Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 25 June 2025

But security experts could find themselves in a similar position to that of economists: despite near-total expert consensus that tariffs will spark a trade war and hurt the U.S. economy, Trump plowed ahead. —Florence Gaub, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025