countervailing duty

British  

noun

1. an extra import duty imposed by a country on certain imports, esp to prevent dumping or to counteract subsidies in the exporting country

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countervailing duty

The Commerce Department will issue antidumping duty orders and countervailing duty orders on such imports as a result.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025

Last year, the number of anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations launched by the Commerce Department rose more than 60 percent.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 26, 2018

Meanwhile, Canada has said that it will not consider dispensing with another provision, Nafta’s Chapter 19, which allows countries to challenge each other’s anti-dumping and countervailing duty decisions before an independent panel.

From New York Times ● Oct. 11, 2017

Canada’s foreign affairs minister Chrystia Freeland said Canada strongly disagreed with the anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations into imports of Canadian large civil aircraft.

From Reuters ● Sep. 27, 2017

Whenever a tax bore with unequal effect on the land, when it did not affect labour bestowed in other employments, a countervailing duty on importation should, I think, be also imposed.

From Letters of David Ricardo to Thomas Robert Malthus, 1810-1823 by Ricardo, David