Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Subject to import tax.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Subject to a customs duty: as, dutiable goods.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective U.S. Subject to the payment of a duty; as
dutiable goods.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective on which
duty must be paid whenimported orsold
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective subject to import tax
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Examples
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If you have more that US$1,000 in dutiable items, you may be required to hire a customs broker.
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If an incoming package does contain dutiable items, then both the duty, and the customs inspection fee have to be paid before the package will be delivered.
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"The magnitude of the tariff shock in the Smoot-Hawley legislation, which increased the domestic price of imports by 5% at a time when dutiable imports were just 1.4% of GDP, was simply not large enough to trigger the kind of economic contraction experienced after 1930," Mr. Irwin concludes.
Heavy Duty James Grant 2011
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Quantitatively, the so-called Kennedy Round of tariff cuts was large enough to be noticed, but not earth-shaking: as this legislation was phased in, our average duty on dutiable imports fell from 14.3 percent in 1967 to 9.9 percent in 1972.
Ian Fletcher: Kennedy's Blunder, or How Free Trade Turned Sour for America Ian Fletcher 2011
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Smoot-Hawley, in contrast, raised the average dutiable rate by a mere 15%-18%, Mr. Irwin reckons.
Heavy Duty James Grant 2011
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U.S. tariffs these days are nothing compared with the towering levies of yesteryear—less than 5% on dutiable imports versus 45% in 1930.
Heavy Duty James Grant 2011
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Quantitatively, the so-called Kennedy Round of tariff cuts was large enough to be noticed, but not earth-shaking: as this legislation was phased in, our average duty on dutiable imports fell from 14.3 percent in 1967 to 9.9 percent in 1972.
Ian Fletcher: Kennedy's Blunder, or How Free Trade Turned Sour for America Ian Fletcher 2011
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In 1971, a trade deficit of one-half of one percent of GDP about a tenth of today's level was enough to frighten Nixon into imposing a temporary 10 percent surcharge tariff on all dutiable goods.
Ian Fletcher: Kennedy's Blunder, or How Free Trade Turned Sour for America Ian Fletcher 2011
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Quantitatively, the so-called Kennedy Round of tariff cuts was large enough to be noticed, but not earth-shaking: as this legislation was phased in, our average duty on dutiable imports fell from 14.3 percent in 1967 to 9.9 percent in 1972.
Ian Fletcher: Kennedy's Blunder, or How Free Trade Turned Sour for America Ian Fletcher 2011
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In 1971, a trade deficit of one-half of one percent of GDP about a tenth of today's level was enough to frighten Nixon into imposing a temporary 10 percent surcharge tariff on all dutiable goods.
Ian Fletcher: Kennedy's Blunder, or How Free Trade Turned Sour for America Ian Fletcher 2011
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