leviable en · ADJ
Etymology
From levy + -able.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Able to be levied
An additional of two and one-half per cent, a new and temporary duty, called subvencion, appropiated to the payment of the loan made to the king by the Cadiz Board of Trade, and leviable on all kinds of imported goods, and, of course, equal, according to the usual mode of valuation, to about three per cent.
1916, Fedor Jagor, Tomas de Comyn, Chas. Wilkes, Rudolf Virchow., The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes:Where Customs Duties are, at the Union, leviable on any Goods, Wares, or Merchandises in any Two Provinces, those Goods, Wares, and Merchandises may, from and after the Union, be imported from one of those Provinces into the other of them on Proof of Payment of the Customs Duty leviable thereon in the Province of Exportation, and on Payment of such further Amount (if any) of Customs Duty as is leviable thereon in the Province of Importation.
1867, anonymous author, The British North America Act, 1867: