revenue tariff

American  

noun

1. a tariff or duty imposed on imports primarily to produce public revenue.

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revenue tariff British  

noun

1. a tariff for the purpose of producing public revenue Compare protective tariff

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Etymology

Origin of revenue tariff

An Americanism dating back to 1810–20

Example Sentences

The question of a low protective or purely revenue tariff on imports has not received any serious investigation.

From The Framework of Home Rule by Childers, Erskine

A revenue tariff is a schedule of duties on goods entering or leaving a country, so arranged that the collection of taxes causes the least possible disturbance to domestic industry.

From Modern Economic Problems Economics Volume II by Fetter, Frank Albert

So true is this that, if the present tariff were changed so as to make it thereby a revenue tariff, one fifth at least could be added to the receipts of the Treasury from imports.

From American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897) by Johnston, Alexander

After the notable step of 1897 towards a purely revenue tariff, there came a halt for some years.

From The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier A Chronicle of Our Own Time by Skelton, Oscar Douglas

It is urged that direct taxation will not prove sufficiently profitable to enable the South to dispense with a revenue tariff; but those who urge this, do not know the South.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various