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The Republican high-tariff advocates appealed to farmers with the theme that high-wage factory workers would pay premium prices for foodstuffs. This was the "home market" idea, and it won over most farmers in the Northeast, but it had little relevance to the southern and western farmers who exported most of their cotton, tobacco and wheat.
The Emergency Tariff increased rates on wheat, sugar, meat, wool, and other agricultural products brought into the United States from foreign nations, which provided protection for domestic producers of those items. Farm state representatives saw the tariff as only the first step in a campaign for permanent protection and more government aid. [3]
Some farmers opposed the tariff and blamed it for the agricultural depression. The American Farm Bureau Federation claimed that because of the tariff, the raised price of raw wool cost to farmers $27 million. Democratic Senator David I. Walsh challenged the tariff by arguing that the farmers were net exporters and so did not need protection ...
The iron and steel industry, and the wool industry, were the well-organized interests groups that demanded, and usually obtained, high tariffs through support of the Republican Party. Industrial workers had much higher wages than their European counterparts, and they credited it to the tariff and voted Republican.
Trump calls tariffs "the most beautiful word in the dictionary" and has even floated things like 2,000% tariffs on autos and said his aim in some areas is to implement "the highest tariff in history."
High tariffs were a policy designed to encourage rapid industrialisation and protect the high American wage rates. [31] The policy from 1860 to 1933 was usually high protective tariffs (apart from 1913 to 1921). After 1890, the tariff on wool did affect an important industry, but otherwise the tariffs were designed to keep American wages high.
Trump threatened the firm with a 200% tariff should he win back the presidency and it opted to export manufacturing to Mexico. “If they want to build in the United States, there’s no tariff,” he added. Trump opened the event with some of his usual themes. He declared that in 2020, "We had an election that didn’t exactly work out too good.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will say on Thursday that walling off the U.S. economy as proposed by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump would be "deeply misguided," raising ...