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A Tale of Tariffs and the Making of the Modern Offshore Market

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…

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