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dutiable

dutiable

1 7.7
Goods you must pay customs tax for when you bring into a country
  • adjective
  • /ˈdjuːtəbl/
  • Specialized
: sujeto a impuestos
  • Before importing any dutiable merchandise, it's important to understand the applicable taxes.

Examples

  • If one takes the estimated average duty paid on all Canadian exports (dutiable or not) immediately before free trade and compares it to that in force today, one sees that the FTA has given overall Canadian exports to the U.S. a relatively small gain of about one-half of one percent.

    Academic text (1991)

  • The store sells many dutiable items, so we must calculate the customs fees before shipping.

  • Customs had difficulty locating the dutiable items.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • I'm very sorry madam, but we have to inspect all luggage for dutiable merchandise.

    The Gay Divorcee (1934)

  • The McKinley Tariff Act raised tariff rates on most dutiable products while simultaneously eliminating tariffs on a set of products, including sugar, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides.

    Academic text (2016)

  • Travelers should declare any dutiable goods they bring back from abroad to avoid fines.

Antonyms

exempt
83 4.4

Not required to do something others must do, for example paying tax

Surface Forms

dutiable positive

Morphology

dutiable = duty (transparent) = duty + able

Formed by adding the productive suffix '-able' to 'duty', so learners who know 'duty' can infer 'liable to duty'.

Etymology

The word dutiable comes from the noun duty, which is a 'must-pay' tax or charge, and the ending -able, which means 'can be' or 'liable to'. So dutiable means 'liable to' pay customs duty or tax.