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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Example Sentences

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

“Anti-dumping and countervailing duty determinations provide the domestic industry with relief from dumping and improper subsidies,” he said in a statement to The New York Times last week.

From New York Times • Jun. 11, 2018

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

Commerce Department said it imposed a 219.63 percent countervailing duty on Bombardier’s new commercial jets after it made a preliminary finding of subsidization.

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