Talk:Tariff

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[edit] tariff

6-29-05 Historical material added by RJensen (I own the copyright and give its use to Wikipedia). from what i know bout tariffs(barely learned today)this is another way of way of the U.s and multi billion dollar companies to stay on top of the game........just an idea

12-6-05 i dont know what tariffs are but my wicked teahcer has made me research it to day.

12-7-05 I know i hate tariffs and there some stupid stuff thats TAKING OVER THE WORLD

12-7-05 If the tariffs dont take over the world i just might and you can be my side kick!!!!!!!!!

12-7-05 im sorry but i prefer 2 work on my own to destroy the teriffs for evil revenge.gosh, im starving...... so u have something 2 eat? im so glad im a girl cuz then i can like boyz

12-8-05 okay what exactly are tariffs it would be nice if some one actually put what they were then it would be so much easier for some one like me who needs the answers for home work or any other stupid assign ment like this at school. okay i have this friend for example who is really stupid when it comes to computer stuff and she hates to read but shes just plane stupid so it probably wouldnt make a difference even if you did have it written in the sky but i would really like it if you had more answers to our questions about tariffs. you probably had a teacher back in high school that made you look up tariffs and it was a pain in the behind. cant you just simply make it easier for us slowpokes that dont know anything more than what color the ocean and sky are.

Good point. I added some clarification at the beginning. Rjensen 18:56, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Tariffs in American history + low tariff policy

These sections of the article is large enough, and different enough, to form their own article. I dont think this article should start covering the history of tariffs in every single country, it distracts away from the topic at hand. Dupz 23:51, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks to recent world trade agreements, tariffs are mostly of historical importance, and therefore need historical treatments in an encyclopedia. Most of the scholarship has focused on the tariff policy of the largest economies (Britain to 1880 and US since then.) I also added more on Canada. Rjensen Rjensen 07:43, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

I dont doubt that the content deserves to be in the encyclopedia, but I just think that we should stick with brief summaries of tariffs in regional history, and put what we have into an article, perhaps named "Tariffs in North American history". I think we should stick with things like arguments for/against, and the economics of tariffs. Dupz 08:49, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Today's arguments for and against tariffs are either based on mathematical economics (which is covered in the article), or historical evidence. Every recent discussion of tariffs contains many historical references, and it is almost impossible to engage in a discussion for/against tariffs if you don't know tariff history. So it belongs with the main article. What the article DOES need is more on the tariff history of Britain and Germany, which are also important models. I did add material on Canada and plan to add some British material soon. Rjensen Rjensen 18:11, 14 November 2005 (UTC)