Economists and state officials have raised concerns that tariffs hurt the consumer, largely due to many imported goods ...

BEIJING, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- China will apply provisional import tariff rates lower than the most-favored-nation rates on 935 items from Jan. 1, 2026, the Customs Tariff Commission of the State ...

I was taught to use “fewer” with countable nouns: “less coal, fewer sacks”. Perhaps the rule could be expressed in a more contemporary form as: “less protectionism and fewer tariffs”.