Tariffs force you and me to buy goods at a higher price, which affects industry just as much as consumers. Here I make a case against tariffs and show how it hurts our ability to compete, while raising the cost of living for all.

This briefing on Tariffs was prepared by Chris Saucedo while a Business Administration major in the College of Business at Southeastern Louisiana University.

This briefing on International Trade was prepared by Da Le while a Management major in the College of Business at Southeastern Louisiana University.

The hypocritical development of American tariffs.

Jacksonian Democracy meant that politically, everyone would have a say; most importantly the common man.

A pressure group that agitated for the repeal of the tariffs protecting expensive British-grown grain from foreign competition. The growing popularity of laissez-faire economic principles opposed to government intervention in the marketplace, undermined the policy of protecting the higher price of domestically grown grain against cheaper imported grain.