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| | Taussig, Some Aspects of the Tariff Question, Part IV, Chapter XVII: Library of Economics and Liberty |
 | | It was systematically and successfully developed during the time of the early protective movement which set in with the tariff of 1816; it maintained itself unshaken notwithstanding the gradual reduction of duties carried out in 1833-40 under the provisions of the compromise tariff act of 1833. |
 | | In the tariff act of 1861, enacted before the war, specific duties were substituted for the ad valorem duties of 1846 and 1857; with the declared intention, and in the main probably with the effect, of simply changing the method of levy, not the height of the tariff. |
 | | In the protective tariff acts that came after 1883,those of 1890, 1897, and 1909,the same process of cautious reduction of the duties on the cheaper grades was continued. |
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