What takes longer to melt a small quantity or a large quantity?

A large quantity

Explanation:

A large quantity will take much longer to melt compared to a small quantity of the same matter.

The rate of melt of a substance is particularly a function of the nature of the substance and the amount of energy supplied to it.

If we assume that we are dealing with different quantities of the same substance, then the one that has more mass will melt faster because less energy would be required to change its state.

A large quantity of matter will take more time to melt.

answer: any goods being imported from another country may be subject to issued by the federal government are tariffs

explanation:  

tariffs are a tax on anything that are imported from abroad. government use them to protect and boost their local industries and the thought is that they encourage consumers to buy local instead of importing and they will hope will protect jobs and economy in the country that implements them