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How do you think high tariffs on goods brought into the United States helped

American industry?
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Answer: Tariffs have historically served a key role in the trade policy of the United States. Their purpose was to generate revenue for the federal government and to allow for import substitution industrialization (industrialization of a nation by replacing foreign imports with domestic production) by acting as a protective barrier around infant industries.

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It created jobs for the US and increased employment and incomes as well and also lowered prices
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