countervailing duty
noun
an extra import duty imposed by a country on certain imports, esp to prevent dumping or to counteract subsidies in the exporting country
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How to use countervailing duty in a sentence
From 1899 to 1904 a countervailing duty was imposed on bounty-fed beet sugar.
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