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Roderick McLeod's avatar

In the example re Columbian coffee, the follow-up question that should have been asked is: why does Columbia even need to impose a tariff on American coffee?

What hasn’t been addressed in many of these discussions is the historical aspect of why tariffs arise in the first place: the need to protect nascent or favored industries. And why such tariffs have been allowed to increase overtime?

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