one half of import tariff unspecified sense

William H. Ukers (author)

• government discharged one half of import tariff the year 1692 ⟨for encouragement of trade⟩
  assertsneutralsource: coffee-pg28500

  it was not until the year 1692 that the government, "for the greater encouragement and advancement of trade and the greater importation of the said respective goods or merchandises," discharged one half of the obnoxious tariff

  judge verdicts (2)

  • groundedness 1.00 pass — The claim is directly and fully supported by the passage. The quoted text explicitly states that in 1692 the government discharged one half of the obnoxious tariff for the encouragement and advancement of trade, matching all elements of the claim including subject, predicate, object, timing, and context.
  • qualifier_fidelity 1.00 pass — All qualifiers are faithful to the passage. The viewpoint is correctly attributed to the author (not a named source), the stance is appropriately 'asserts', the sentiment is neutral, the time is correctly specified as 1692 with no end date, the context accurately reflects the governmental rationale for the tariff reduction, and the quote appears verbatim in the passage and directly supports the claim.