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Re: Vietnam and Mexico
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- Subject: Re: Vietnam and Mexico
- From: Autoplectic <autoplectic@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 06:00:37 -0800
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On 12/12/05, Walt Byars <wbyars@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The U.S. did indeed have tariffs that high at times in the antebellum era.
> The article IS incorrect, tohugh, in saying tariffs were that high since
> 1791. Chang Himself (Kicking Away the Ladder, p. 26) said average tariffs
> were lower than 12.5% until 1812.
>
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See also:
"Opening America's Market: US Foreign Trade Policy Since 1776" by
Alfred Eckes Jr.
It was, in an era of Shays rebellion and the French revo.with all the
anxiety they provoked amongst elites re the unwashed masses, easier to
tax foreign goods than to tax one's own citizenry.
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