Levy vs. Tariff — What's the Difference?

Impose (a tax, fee, or fine)

A tariff is a tax imposed by a government of a country or of a supranational union on imports or exports of goods. Besides being a source of revenue for the government, import duties can also be a form of regulation of foreign trade and policy that taxes foreign products to encourage or safeguard domestic industry.

Enlist (someone) for military service

A list or system of duties imposed by a government on imported or exported goods.

An act of levying a tax, fee, or fine

A duty or duties so imposed.

An act of enlisting troops

A schedule of prices or fees.

To impose (a tax or fine, for example) on someone.

To fix a duty or price on.

To impose a tax, fine, or other punishment on (a person or business).

A system of government-imposed duties levied on imported or exported goods; a list of such duties, or the duties themselves.

To enlist or conscript into military service

A schedule of rates, fees or prices.

To declare and wage (a war).

(British) A sentence determined according to a scale of standard penalties for certain categories of crime.

To confiscate property, especially in accordance with a legal judgment.

(transitive) to levy a duty on (something)

The act or process of levying.

A schedule, system, or scheme of duties imposed by the government of a country upon goods imported or exported; as, a revenue tariff; a protective tariff; Clay's compromise tariff. (U. S. 1833).

Money, property, or troops levied.

The duty, or rate of duty, so imposed; as, the tariff on wool; a tariff of two cents a pound.

To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property.

Any schedule or system of rates, changes, etc.; as, a tariff of fees, or of railroad fares.

To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority.

To make a list of duties on, as goods.

To draft someone into military service.

A government tax on imports or exports;

To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription. etc.

Charge a tariff;

To wage war.

To raise, as a siege.

(legal) To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.

The act of levying.

The tax, property or people so levied.

The Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar, valued at elevenpence when the dollar was rated at seven shillings and sixpence.

A name formerly given in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia to the Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar (or 12½ cents), valued at eleven pence when the dollar was rated at 7s. 6d.

The act of levying or collecting by authority; as, the levy of troops, taxes, etc.

That which is levied, as an army, force, tribute, etc.

The taking or seizure of property on executions to satisfy judgments, or on warrants for the collection of taxes; a collecting by execution.

To raise, as a siege.

To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription, etc.

To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority; as, to levy taxes, toll, tribute, or contributions.

To gather or exact; as, to levy money.

To seize property, real or personal, or subject it to the operation of an execution; to make a levy; as, to levy on property; the usual mode of levying, in England, is by seizing the goods.

A charge imposed and collected

The act of drafting into military service

Impose and collect;

Cause to assemble or enlist in the military;