Thanks for the apology Pea Ridge, (not necessary BTW) but what’s your point? I guess I’m missing something here.
I was not supporting any point about tariffs but pointing out that Bro Joe drew conclusions from errors (his own), and that his insinuation was not supported by the data he quoted. After presenting the wrong data, he offered this conclusion:
“So the take-away here is that a lot of political philosophising (sic) over the “injustice” of high tariffs did not correspond to the actual tariffs then in effect.”
Actually the data he used, if culled correctly, would superficially appear to support the opposite of this conclusion.
However, I pointed out the variables that would make year to year calculations and subsequent conclusions almost impossible to validate because as you know, the rules changed year over year on such issues as the inclusion of reexports in the tariff collection, warehousing law changes influencing the dates of tariff charges, variety of items being subject to tariffs, as well as others.
My apology was based on my assumption that this was boring to you.