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  2. Protective tariff - Wikipedia

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    Tariff rates in Japan (1870–1960) Tariff rates in Spain and Italy (1860–1910) A tariff is a tax added onto goods imported into a country; protective tariffs are taxes that are intended to increase the cost of an import so it is less competitive against a roughly equivalent domestic good. [2]

  3. History of tariffs in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Democrats in Congress, dominated by Southern Democrats, wrote and passed the tariff laws in the 1830s, 1840s, and 1850s, and kept reducing rates, so that the 1857 rates were down to about 15%, a move that boosted trade so overwhelmingly that revenues actually increased, from just over $20 million in 1840 ($0.6 billion in 2023 dollars), to ...

  4. Protectionism in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The average tariff rates in France, UK, US, 1830 to 2000 Average US tariff rates, 1821–2016 U.S. trade balance and trade policy, 1895–2015 The average tariff rates on manufactured products. Britain was the first country to successfully use a large-scale infant industry promotion strategy.

  5. McKinley Tariff - Wikipedia

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    After 450 amendments, the Tariff Act of 1890 was passed and increased average duties across all imports from 38% to 49.5%. [4] McKinley was known as the "Napoleon of Protection", [5] and rates were raised on some goods and lowered on others, always in an attempt to protect American manufacturing interests.

  6. Tariff of 1842 - Wikipedia

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    The Tariff of 1842, or Black Tariff as it became known, was a protectionist tariff schedule adopted in the United States.It reversed the effects of the Compromise Tariff of 1833, which contained a provision that successively lowered the tariff rates from their level under the Tariff of 1832 over a period of ten years until the majority of dutiable goods were to be taxed at 20%.

  7. Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act - Wikipedia

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    The American Tariff League Study of 1951 compared the free and dutiable tariff rates of 43 countries. It found that only seven nations had a lower tariff level than the United States (5.1%), and eleven nations had free and dutiable tariff rates higher than the Smoot–Hawley peak of 19.8% including the United Kingdom (25.6%).

  8. The Tariff History Donald Trump Is Overlooking - AOL

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    Trump’s calls to replace the existing federal income tax with protective tariffs is not only impractical in the face of growing federal deficits; it is also clashes with historical reality.

  9. Protection or Free Trade - Wikipedia

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    Protection or Free Trade is a book published in 1886 by the economist and social philosopher, Henry George. Its sub-title is An Examination of the Tariff Question with Especial Regard to the Interests of Labor.