In War, Wine, and Taxes, John Nye debunks the myth that Britain was a free-trade nation during and after the industrial … revolution, by revealing how the British used tariffs--notably on French wine--as a mercantilist tool to politically weaken … European markets in the decades before World War I. Going back to the seventeenth century and examining the peculiar history of …

, but the impact varies by income group. Provisions outside the current mandate of the World Trade Organization (investment … under the current World Trade Organization mandate (tariff reduction and customs facilitation) drive the effect of trade …