Meanings of prohibitory duty in English

Protection had been a failure when it reached a prohibitory duty of 80s.

I am informed that Scottish literature, like Scottish whisky, will be presently laid under a prohibitory duty.

He remarked:-Thefirst objection I have to a sliding-scale ,is ,thata high, I would say a prohibitory duty, always forms part of it.

Tobacco-growing was forbidden, and the exportation of cattle to England placed under prohibitory duties.

High duties, and in some cases prohibitory duties, were imposed on the products of Scottish industry.

The prohibitory duties forced upon them by the policy of Spain shut out much that we might supply.

The revenue derived from sugar, especially, has been greatly augmented by the removal of the prohibitory duties on foreign sugar.

Lansdowne, Lord, quoted on prohibitory duties, 86, 94.

Whilst by the repeal of highly protective and prohibitory duties the revenue has been increased, the taxes on the people have been diminished.

Should we ever become a shoddy manufacturing people, free trade will probably be abolished; and we shall then impose prohibitory duties upon foreign manufactures.