I want you to think about the question. Let's take it apart. A tariff is levied on products coming INTO a country. It is done to protect industry from foreign goods being cheaper than homemade products. Now, let's look at the second part. Taxes is money people pay to support the government. When taxes are low people have more money to use and that means the the fellow who owns the widget factory can sell more widgets. He also can earn a profit because foreign widgets aren't undercutting him through a price war. Now, that you have this I want you to answer the question.
Foreign countries could not afford to buy U.S. exports or repay U.S. loans.
protectionism
Tariff And Import Quota
A tariff that wasn't even meant to pass congress. It stipulated a ridiculously high import tariff, and the foreign economic response mainly affected the Southern States.
A high tariff to limit foreign competition is called a protective tariff.
A high tariff that limits foreign competition is a protective tariff.
The Underwood Tariff, The Fourteen Points, and different policies during WWI that included the United States.
A high protective tariff can limit foreign competition.
The tariff and the monetary policy
An example is a protectionist trade policy would be a tariff on imports, or quotas on the volume of imports.
Smoot-Hawley Tariff
Donald Chrisler has written: 'Preferential trade arrangements of foreign countries' -- subject(s): Commercial policy, Produce trade, Tariff
Thomas O. Bayard has written: 'Trade and employment effects of tariff reductions agreed to in the MTN' -- subject(s): Foreign trade and employment, Tariff 'Reciprocity and retaliation in U.S. trade policy' -- subject(s): Commercial policy, Competition, Unfair, Reciprocity, Unfair Competition