countervailing duty

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countervailing duty

noun countervailing duties

  1. A duty levied on an imported article to offset the unfair price advantage it holds due to a subsidy paid to producers or exporters by the government of the exporting country if such imports cause or threaten injury to a domestic industry.
  2. A duty or surtax levied on an imported article to offset an excise or inland revenue tax placed upon articles of the same class manufactured domestically.

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noun duty on imported article to offset unfair price advantage

Русскийкомпенсацио́нная по́шлина kompensaciónnaja póšlina

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@misc{countervailing_duty_2026,
  title = {countervailing duty},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/countervailing%20duty},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}