What is the name for a tax on imports

a and c?

i think it is a and c

the romans were initially interested in expansion via sicily (which at that time was a cultural melting pot), part of which lay under carthaginian control. at the start of the first punic war (264-241 bc), carthage was the dominant power of the western mediterranean, with an extensive maritime empire

"this speech"? what speech are you talking about?