"stiff" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- That would require Japan, for example, to accept the need to replace its prohibition on rice imports with stiff tariffs.
- After decades of heavy state control, the economy is reeling from low productivity, a flood of shoddy goods and stiff tariffs that eliminate competition.
- The authorities here said it was highly unlikely that the stiff tariffs threatened today would ever be imposed.
- The Stamp Act of 1765 set stiff tariffs on virtually every kind of printed matter from newspapers and legal documents to playing cards.
- On the other side is the president's chief political adviser, Karl Rove, who advocates stiff tariffs to protect steelmaking jobs.
- Chrysler announced that this was necessary to avoid a stiff tariff, but that was only part of the story.
- The four-door sedan listed for $7,435, a rather stiff tariff by Chevrolet standards.
- Indeed, they say the pact would increase jobs in the United States, because goods produced here would no longer face such a stiff tariff.
- Big companies like Legend must pay China's stiff tariffs on such imports, 15 percent for components and 25 percent for computers.
- As a result, stiff tariffs were placed on Japanese color television sets and other consumer goods.
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