to increase the prices'
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to expand world trade by reducing tariffs
to expand international trade by mutual reduction of tariffs.
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Tariffs provide revenue for the country buying the imported goods. If a country wants to export goods to a country, they have to pay a tariff(tax) to be allowed to do so. China pays very low tariffs to the US on the goods they export to us.
To allow American industries to grow..
To protect Northern factories pre-civil war, from going out of buissness.
The purpose of a tariff is to restrict trade. They make the price of imported goods and services higher, causing them to be more expensive to buyers.
The plural form of the noun 'tariff' is tariffs.
the tariffs increased:]
They allow their producers to sell products more cheaply than foreign competitors
The purpose was to protect manufacturing industry - nearly all of it being in the North. The South, having almost no manufacturing industry, needed far more imports. So the effects were that the tariffs were seen as a tax on the South, levied by a Northern-dominated Congress. This raised the incentive for the South to break away and live on its massive cotton exports.