If you have a financial interest in or signature authority over a foreign financial account, including a bank account, brokerage account, mutual fund, trust, or other type of foreign financial account whose aggregate value exceeded $10,000 at any time during 2015, you meet the FBAR filing requirements.
Definition: Tariff War Tariff War usually refers to the war in trade tariffs that countries levy upon each other so as to discourage exports from one another and create trade benefits for self. Tariff Wars are also referred to as âcustoms warâ.
Tariffs in United States history. The tariff history of the United States spans from colonial times to the present. The first tariff law passed by the U.S. Congress, acting under the recently ratified Constitution, was the Tariff of 1789. Its purpose was to generate revenue for the federal government (to run the government and to pay the interest on its debt), and also to act as a protective barrier around domestic industries.