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David Chan Smith | Promarket | 06/11/2025
David Chan Smith argues that tariff regimes during the eighteenth century encouraged modern history’s first offshore markets to reroute goods through jurisdictions that faced lower tariff rates. This historical “entrepôt…
America’s Trade Policy features commentary and analysis of international trade policy in the U.S. and around the world.
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