Reported in What History Has to Say About the ‘Winners’ in Trade Wars. (The New York Times, 3/8.2018)
Related reading:
If You Aren't Worried About A Trade War, You Don't Know About The Chicken Tax. (Forbes, 3/3/2018)
How it started. The switch to factory farming in the United States after World War II transformed chicken from a luxury food to a mass-produced commodity. Once American poultry companies had satisfied the domestic demand, they started shipping their surplus boilers and fryers across the Atlantic.
Soon, European chicken farmers were crying foul.
3/11/2018 update, "The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 edition", starts here.
Photo credit: Wikipedia
Related reading:
The battle of Smoot-Hawley. (The Economist, 12/18/2008)
Reported in What History Has to Say About the ‘Winners’ in Trade Wars. (The New York Times, 3/8.2018)
The McKinley Tariff of 1890. (U.S. House of Representatives)
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