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Bookmark or Share- Tariff | Definition, Types, Examples, & Facts | Britannica MoneyTariff, tax levied upon goods as they cross national boundaries, usually by the government of the importing country. The words ‘tariff,’ ‘duty,’ and ‘customs’ can be used interchangeably. Tariffs may be levied either to raise revenue or to protect domestic industries.
- United Kingdom - Trade, Manufacturing, Services | BritannicaUnited Kingdom - Trade, Manufacturing, Services: Trade has long been pivotal to the United Kingdom’s economy. The total value of imports and exports represents nearly half the country’s GDP. (By comparison, the value of foreign trade amounts to about one-fifth of the GDP of the United States.)
- World Trade Organization | International Trade Rules & Regulations ...The WTO has six key objectives: (1) to set and enforce rules for international trade, (2) to provide a forum for negotiating and monitoring further trade liberalization, (3) to resolve trade disputes, (4) to increase the transparency of decision-making processes, (5) to cooperate with other major international economic institutions involved in ...
- Transatlantic Slave Trade Causes and Effects - Encyclopedia BritannicaThe transatlantic slave trade generated great wealth for many individuals, companies, and countries, but the brutal trafficking in human beings and the large numbers of deaths that resulted eventually sparked well-organized opposition to the trade. In 1807 the British abolished the slave trade.
- Transatlantic slave trade | History & Facts | Britannicatransatlantic slave trade, segment of the global slave trade that transported between 10 million and 12 million enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas from the 16th to the 19th century.
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