Tariff Protection and Production in the Early U.S. Cotton Textile Industry
- 1 September 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Journal of Economic History
- Vol. 44 (4) , 1033-1045
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022050700033076
Abstract
The importance of tariff protection in the U.S. cotton textile industry is examined quantitatively for the period around 1833. In sharp contradiction to past writings it is found that the industry was almost entirely dependent on protection.Keywords
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