dutiable
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“Without PNTR, the duty rate for these products would increase from 15% to 45%. Based on the 2021 dutiable value of those products, U.S. importers would pay an additional $32.4 million in duties.”
From Washington Times • Mar. 24, 2022
The final Smoot-Hawley bill doubled already-high tariffs on 20,000 dutiable items to an average of 50% of value.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2016
If the importer underestimated the dutiable value, he had to pay a penalty; if he overestimated it, he paid duties on an unrealistically high valuation.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Boots & Shoes, which were removed from the free list and made dutiable at 20% ad valorem, as a "compensation" for the new tariff on hides.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He said he had; but the collector said that he could not, consistent with his duty, give him a clearance 'till all the dutiable articles were out of his ship.
From Tea Leaves Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party) by Drake, Francis S. (Francis Samuel)
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