A tariff imposed principally to raise government revenue rather than to protect domestic industries.
（旨在增加政府财政收入而非保护国内工业的）财政关税
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Edmund Puffin, for example, supported the logic of a Confederate revenue tariff in Anticipations of the Future, a futuristic account of an independent Southern Confederacy published in 1860.
The specter of renewed conflict led Southern members of both parties to support a moderate revenue tariff with incidental protection as a way to diversify the Southern economy, particularly in the older seaboard states.
Even the most ardent free traders in the cotton states expressed hopes that a Confederate revenue tariff would provide incidental protection against Northern goods.
The key to securing such ‘princely treasures’ was a moderate revenue tariff that would have a significant protective element.
He has special contempt for those free traders who would argue for the substitution of a protective tariff with a revenue tariff.
The Confederate revenue tariff probably would have proved yet another failure for Southerners anxiously trying to modernize their economy.
Confederate Virginians, however, realized that a revenue tariff, however low, would offer important incidental protection for a wide range of goods.
Definition of revenue tariff in US English:
revenue tariff
noun
A tariff imposed principally to raise government revenue rather than to protect domestic industries.
（旨在增加政府财政收入而非保护国内工业的）财政关税
Example sentencesExamples
The key to securing such ‘princely treasures’ was a moderate revenue tariff that would have a significant protective element.
The specter of renewed conflict led Southern members of both parties to support a moderate revenue tariff with incidental protection as a way to diversify the Southern economy, particularly in the older seaboard states.
Confederate Virginians, however, realized that a revenue tariff, however low, would offer important incidental protection for a wide range of goods.
The Confederate revenue tariff probably would have proved yet another failure for Southerners anxiously trying to modernize their economy.
Even the most ardent free traders in the cotton states expressed hopes that a Confederate revenue tariff would provide incidental protection against Northern goods.
Edmund Puffin, for example, supported the logic of a Confederate revenue tariff in Anticipations of the Future, a futuristic account of an independent Southern Confederacy published in 1860.
He has special contempt for those free traders who would argue for the substitution of a protective tariff with a revenue tariff.