countervailing duty

1. 1.

   a duty imposed to offset subsidies by foreign governments

   Broaderduty

Questions about countervailing duty

What does countervailing duty mean?

countervailing duty means "a duty imposed to offset subsidies by foreign governments".

Is countervailing duty a common word?

countervailing duty is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.