Then why were almost all of those goods landed in three Northern ports? If they were destined for Southern consumers why didn't they go straight to Southern ports?
The South, on the other hand, exported almost its goods and products, and imported a great deal of what it needed and wanted in return.
A grear deal? In one sentence you say that they imported almost everything and then suddenly it's a great deal. There is a paradox in what you claim, if the North imported next to nothing then why, based on revenue collections, did all the goods land there? What sense is there to bringing goods destined for South Carolina to New York, land them, pay tariffs, load them again, and send them South?
The South exported cotton, rice, sugar and tobacco as its principle trading goods. It imported textiles (especially from Britain) because under their trade agreements it was cheaper for the South to import textiles from Europe than it was to buy them from Northen mills. When the federal government instituted revenue tariffs it threatened Southern imports, so in many instances Southern traders opted to pay the tariffs that Europe owed in order to keep commerce and trade flowing. However, Europe (especially Britain) was incensed that tariffs were applied at all, and ended up instituting some of their own, and since the South was Europe’s main trading partner, it bore the brunt of those tariffs. Then, when the federal government applied protective tariffs, it cut the South’s economy off at the knees. Protective tariffs didn’t affect the North much at all, but they seriously impacted the South.