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baseline
[ beys-lahyn ]
noun
- Tennis. the line at each end of a tennis court, parallel to the net, that marks the in-bounds limit of play.
- (in perspective drawing) a horizontal line in the immediate foreground formed by the intersection of the ground plane and the picture plane.
- a basic standard or level; guideline:
to establish a baseline for future studies.
- a specific value or values that can serve as a comparison or control.
- Typography. the imaginary line on which the bottoms of primary letters align.
- Surveying. triangulation1
- Electronics. a horizontal or vertical line formed on the face of a cathode-ray tube by the sweep of the scanning dot.
- Naval Architecture. a line on the body plan or sheer plan of a hull, representing a horizontal reference plane for vertical dimensions.
adjective
- basic or essential.
baseline
/ ˈ²ú±ðɪ²õËŒ±ô²¹Éª²Ô /
noun
- surveying a measured line through a survey area from which triangulations are made
- an imaginary line, standard of value, etc, by which things are measured or compared
- a line at each end of a tennis court that marks the limit of play
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The US mostly sources its coffee from Brazil and Colombia, which are subject to the baseline 10% tariffs.
Canada and Mexico were excluded from both the baseline and “reciprocal†tariffs, which could ease the effect at the grocery store.
Trump announced a baseline 10% tax on nearly all goods imported to the U.S. from every country in the world, undoing the decades-long era of mostly free global trade long supported by the United States.
From Saturday, all goods imported to the US from anywhere in the world will face a 10% "baseline" tariff.
Trump has announced a 10% "baseline" tariff on all imports to the US – this is what the UK will face.
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