Practice question · True or false
Britain abandoned free trade along with the other great powers during the tariff revival of the 1870s and 1880s.
Hints
- Ask which great power did not raise tariffs in this period.
- Britain remained committed to free trade until the 1930s.
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False
Why
False. Germany raised tariffs in 1879, France with the Méline tariff of 1892, and the United States repeatedly; Britain did not, and held to free trade until the 1930s. That divergence is itself an argument used by historians who see British imperial policy as driven by finance and services rather than by protecting manufacturers.
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