import duty

1. 1.

   a duty imposed on imports

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Questions about import duty

What does import duty mean?

import duty means "a duty imposed on imports".

Is import duty a common word?

import 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.