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>> How about those nineteenth century lovers of free trade, the USA?
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> Which had a large internal market, chronic labor shortages, and high
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and the fiercely protective tariff of abominations of 1828, and the yet more protective Merrill tariff of 1861 that was not significantly modified until the 1890s.
john mage