an economic problem caused by payments for imports being greater than receipts for exports

A list or table of goods with the duties or customs to be paid on them, either on importation or on exportation; a list or table of duties or customs to be paid on goods imported or exported, The duty, or rate of duty, so imposed, a government tax on imports or exports, verb_ charge a tariff, transitive verb_ To fix a duty or price on, To make a list of duties on, as goods, to levy a duty on (something)

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of export

A tax placed on imports or exports; a tariff, A period of time spent at work or doing a particular task, A feeling of obligation, or an act manifesting such feeling; an expression of submissive deference or respectful consideration