“The tariff was on foreign imports”
Wrong. All the exports had to go out on American built ships. So the South was forced to send all their cotton up to Yankee land and let them ship the cotton out on their boats at a very significant profit of fees and commissions. About 40 cents on every dollar. After about 30 years of it the South got sick of it.
If the South left the Union they could ship their cotton out of Charleston and Savannah on any dang ship they liked.
IT WAS ALL ABOUT THE MONEY1111111111
Show me one reputable link that shows the south had to ship on northern ships.
Why didn't the south build their own ships?
So there were no American ships sailing out of Chesapeake bay in Virginia, Wilmington NC, Charleston SC, Savannah Ga.
Mobile Al, New Orleans La. or Houston Tx.
Um, sorry dear.
The only way, at the time, for the South to "to send all their cotton up to Yankee land" would have been by railroad. Shipping by railroad was much more expensive than by ship.
Almost all cotton was shipped from southern ports. Now the ships they went out on were usually owned and built by northerners or Europeans, but that was more a prduct of southern disdain for "commerce" than any government interference.
All the exports had to go out on American built ships.
Very unlikely. If you have evidence of this provision, feel free to post it. So far when I have asked you for actual evidence, you haven't provided any.
Anyway, even if the South had been prohibited from building ships, what would prevent rich southerners from buying ships from Europe or the North and going into the shipping trade to reap its vast profits for themselves?
Nothing at all. Except that raising cotton was more profitable and a great deal less difficult. As long as you could force others to grow it for you.