protective tariff

1. 1.

   a tariff imposed to protect domestic firms from import competition

   Broaderduty

   Narroweranti-dumping duty

Questions about protective tariff

What does protective tariff mean?

protective tariff means "a tariff imposed to protect domestic firms from import competition".

Is protective tariff a common word?

protective tariff 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.