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

Under a revenue tariff railroad iron was sold for less than two-thirds of its present cost.

From Monopolies and the People by Cloud, D. C.

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

But very soon the tables were turned: the Whigs became the high-tariff party, the Democrats more and more opposing this policy in favor of a low or a revenue tariff.

From History of the United States, Volume 3 by Andrews, Elisha Benjamin

While his treasury reports indicated a preference for a revenue tariff, they were sufficiently ambiguous to create opposition in the south and a loss of support in the north.

From Rise of the New West, 1819-1829 by Turner, Frederick Jackson

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