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COUNTERVAILING DUTY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does countervailing duty mean? 

COUNTERVAILING DUTY (noun)
  The noun COUNTERVAILING DUTY has 1 sense:

1. a duty imposed to offset subsidies by foreign governmentsplay

  Familiarity information: COUNTERVAILING DUTY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


COUNTERVAILING DUTY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A duty imposed to offset subsidies by foreign governments

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("countervailing duty" is a kind of...):

duty; tariff (a government tax on imports or exports)


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