Download or read book History of Protective Tariff Laws written by R.W. Thompson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1888 and reprinted in 1974, offers a history of US protective tariffs and their consequences for that country’s international trade, particularly with Great Britain. Its aim was to present to the reader the arguments for and against the opposing principles of protection and free trade, and in this it is successful – the book is a comprehensive analysis of the issue, seen from a time when the debate was perhaps at its most intense.