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A Brief History of Tariffs : Planet Money The debate over tariffs is nothing new. In fact, it's as old as the country itself. A look at how the debate began.
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A Brief History of Tariffs

After the Revolutionary War, one of the first acts of the brand new Congress was to tax goods imported from foreign countries. Since then the debate over tariffs hasn't changed much, but the U.S. economy definitely has.

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