Tariff Shenanigans

marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/07/tariff-shenanigans.html

In our textbook, Tyler and I give an amusing example of how entrepreneurs circumvented U.S. tariffs and quotas on sugar. Sugar could be cheaply imported into Canada and iced tea faced low tariffs when imported from Canada into the U.S., so firms created a high-sugar iced “tea” that was…

This story appeared on marginalrevolution.com, 2025-07-14 11:17:24.
The Entire Business World on a Single Page. Free to Use →