Were high import tariffs somehow related to the strong U.S. economic growth during the late nineteenth century? This … paper examines this frequently mentioned but controversial question and investigates the channels by which tariffs could … expansion and capital accumulation than on productivity growth; (ii) tariffs may have discouraged capital accumulation by …

After the Civil War, Congress justified high import tariffs (relative to their prewar levels)" as necessary in order to …" proposed a tariff reduction to reduce customs revenue, the Republicans offered higher tariffs to" reduce imports and customs …

) with foreign countries. The resulting trade agreements reduced U.S. tariffs and culminated in the General Agreement on … Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in 1947. Was the Great Depression responsible for bringing about this fundamental shift in U.S. trade …

Uniform tariffs have become increasingly popular in recent years, yet their economic rationale is not strong. We … regime than under a regime in which tariffs are allowed to differ. Second, an input-price effect may dampen the enthusiasm of …

tariffs. Since the eruption of the debt crisis, many proposals for structural reforms in the developing countries have …

We investigate the effects of higher tariffs on the current account.Tariffs may increase or decrease investment … depending on the capital intensity of the sector protected. We find that ther esponse of saving to tariffs issensitive to the …), saving fallswith higher tariffs. This result may, however, be reversed in the Blanchard-Yaarj type model in which consumers …

inflation and tariffs as revenue devices. The analysis derives elasticity rules that tie optimal tariff and inflation rates to …

the Tokyo Round, later unilateral political decisions resulted in less "optimal" tariffs …