tariff war

This relic of some long-forgotten tariff wars is not just linguistic nonsense, though, that can be easily ignored.

Quietly, without a shot fired in a tariff war, Russia's eastern third has followed the rest of Asia into China's economic orbit.

He also protected new industries from western import, especially from Germany, which led to a tariff war with Prussia.

Brasil, despite it's much documented trade and tariff wars with the United States of America has also prospered in many ways.

A Customs war, also known as a toll war or tariff war, is a type of economical conflict between two or more states.

On 29 July 1925, the value of the Polish złoty declined significantly, foreshadowing the eventual "tariff war" with Germany.

The Tariff Wars (manuscript)

By unanimous consent, the Senate banned the phrase "most-favored nation" - a remnant of 18th-century tariff wars - and substituted "normal trade relations."

I find it more than a little difficult to believe that legitimate efforts to safeguard our national interest are going to lead to tariff wars over textiles or sugar.

But the import ban threatened to set off a tariff war with Burkina Faso's major trading partner, Ivory Coast.

Polish-German relations worsened, as Germany also begun a tariff war with Poland, but the Polish government would not yield on the border issue.

As the history of tariff wars has shown, neglect of strategic inter-dependence in policy-making led to extremely inefficient outcomes for the economic system as a whole.

How soon we forget that tariff wars played a role in causing World War I and were a key reason for World War II.

A ten-year tariff war broke out between France and Italy after 1887, damaging Franco-Italian relations which had prospered during Italian Unification.

The result may appear to be random - threats of tariff wars, armed skirmishes to control single-resource countries, ethnic minorities which control resources asserting their independence - but they are not.

The two countries were engaged in a tariff war after the Fordney-McCumber Tariff was passed in 1922 by the United States; Spain raised tariffs on American goods by 40%.

The European Union has asked the Chinese Premier to appreciate their currency and put an end to unfair commercial practices which have, for years, fuelled tariff wars, highlighting this as a basic condition before addressing the issue of recognising China as a market economy.

In earlier years Amsterdam had been strongly pro-French, often forcing William to moderate his policies, but a tariff war waged by Louis from 1687 against the Republic and French import limitations on herring, a major Dutch export, had outraged the wealthy merchants.

From September 22, Louis XIV, after having waged a tariff war against the Republic for over a year, seized all Dutch ships present in French ports,Jardine (2008), p. 39 seeming to prove that real war with France was imminent, though Louis had meant it to be a mere warning.