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Article: Dingley Tariff
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- Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
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DINGLEY TARIFF
Passed by Congress in July 1897, the Dingley Tariff Act increased duties by an average of 57 percent. Tariff rates were hiked on sugar, salt, tin cans, glassware, and tobacco, as well as on iron and steel, steel rails, petroleum, lead, copper, locomotives, matches, whisky, and leather goods.
Protective tariffs figured prominently in nineteenth century political debates. Tariffs were used in the United States as early as the 1790s. In 1828 Congress passed a bill (called the "Tariff of Abominations" by its opponents) levying government taxes on imported goods as a way of protecting the nation's burgeoning industrial interests. Thereafter tariffs were adjusted depending on ...