Sectional Tariff

Each section contains different rates among many of the same points with provisions for alternative application.

Sectional tariff. Southern cotton growers having found a ready market in britain and other. The tariff of 1824 was the first one in which the sectional interests of the north and the south came into direct conflict. The expressions section chapter and tariff heading shall mean respectively the sections chapters and tariff headings in the customs cooperation council nomenclature for the classification of goods in customs tariffs.

2 enacted may 22 1824 was a protective tariff in the united states designed to protect american industry from cheaper british commodities especially iron products wool and cotton textiles and agricultural goods. G when publishing both class and commodity rates in sections of a tariff under authority of this rule the class rates shall be published in a section or sections preceding the commodity sections. This measure has sometimes been called the sectional tariff of 1824 northern and western representatives joined together in passing the tariff turning a deaf ear to complaints from the south.

Cotton growers sold heavily to britain and other european nations and justifiably feared tariff retaliation.