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  2. Trade barrier - Wikipedia

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    Barriers take the form of tariffs (which impose a financial burden on imports) and non-tariff barriers to trade (which uses other overt and covert means to restrict imports and occasionally exports). In theory, free trade involves the removal of all such barriers, except perhaps those considered necessary for health or national security.

  3. General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade - Wikipedia

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    The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is a legal agreement between many countries, whose overall purpose was to promote international trade by reducing or eliminating trade barriers such as tariffs or quotas. According to its preamble, its purpose was the "substantial reduction of tariffs and other trade barriers and the elimination ...

  4. Non-tariff barriers to trade - Wikipedia

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    Non-tariff barriers to trade (NTBs; also called non-tariff measures, NTMs) are trade barriers that restrict imports or exports of goods or services through mechanisms other than the simple imposition of tariffs. Such barriers are subject to controversy and debate, as they may comply with international rules on trade yet serve protectionist ...

  5. Massive new Trump tariffs are looming. Here’s how these ...

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    Tariffs are a tax imposed on goods that the U.S. imports from other nations. President-elect Donald Trump has shown a penchant for tariffs in his economic policy agenda. In his first term, he ...

  6. History of tariffs in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A trade war therefore does not cause a recession. Furthermore, he notes that the Smoot–Hawley tariff did not cause the Great Depression. The decline in trade between 1929 and 1933 "was almost entirely a consequence of the Depression, not a cause. Trade barriers were a response to the Depression, in part a consequence of deflation." [97]

  7. Tariff - Wikipedia

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    Protective tariffs are among the most widely used instruments of protectionism, along with import quotas and export quotas and other non-tariff barriers to trade. Tariffs can be fixed (a constant sum per unit of imported goods or a percentage of the price) or variable (the amount varies according to the price).

  8. Free trade agreement - Wikipedia

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    Multilateral trade agreements are agreements among three or more countries, and are the most difficult to negotiate and agree. [1] FTAs, a form of trade pacts, determine the tariffs and duties that countries impose on imports and exports with the goal of reducing or eliminating trade barriers, thus encouraging international trade. [2]

  9. Import quota - Wikipedia

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    An import quota is a type of trade restriction that sets a physical limit on the quantity of a good that can be imported into a country in a given period of time. [1] Quotas, like other trade restrictions, are typically used to benefit the producers of a good in that economy (protectionism).