protective tariff

noun

a tariff levied on imports to protect the domestic economy rather than to raise revenue

protective tariff

A duty imposed on imports to raise their price, making them less attractive to consumers and thus protecting domestic industries from foreign competition.

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A tax on foreign goods for the sake of revenue only had satisfied everybody; but a protective tariff was unpopular with the South.

Since all sensible men know that the evil lies in a protective tariff and the bulky catalogue of monopoly.

The great measures brought forward were a national bank, internal improvement, and a protective tariff.

It is interesting to observe that Taylor brands the protective tariff as one of the evils of Marshall's Nationalist philosophy.

By what reasoning is a protective tariff made Constitutional?

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