Oh, so you can figure things out! I was beginning to wonder.
How is that better? Well it's horrible for the North. It would have been economically devastating on their shipping industry as well as other industries in the North. It's really good for the South though, because the shippers can't gouge them anymore.
You probably forgot or refused to accept it when it was first explained to you, but when the Law sets forth penalties for using foreign ships, (up to and including confiscation of the ship and cargo) The gouging domestic industry sets their prices just barely below the cost of doing business with Foreign ships or crews and the cost of paying all the fines.
So yeah, the Shipping charges would suddenly have gotten way cheaper for the Southern states than they had previously been. That's why Washington DC was *IN* the protection game in the first place. To protect Northern industries, including shipping.
Again, not about slavery. The Corwin amendment proves DC and the North would sell the slaves down the river on a moment's notice, but what they absolutely would not tolerate is the loss of their revenue streams.
War was about money. Only money. Well power too, so okay, money and power. Same as every other war ever fought in history.
Which if your goal is to shaft Northern shippers then that's all well and good. But your original claim, or the author of the post you linked to, was that the north was raping the south by forcing the south to pay them for shipping and insurance and brokerage charges. If it's Europe who is doing the raping and not the north then where is the south any better off? They're still getting raped.
You probably forgot or refused to accept it when it was first explained to you, but when the Law sets forth penalties for using foreign ships, (up to and including confiscation of the ship and cargo)
For costal shipping only, U.S. port to U.S. port. Would the South scrap the Navigation Acts entirely?
So yeah, the Shipping charges would suddenly have gotten way cheaper for the Southern states than they had previously been.
You have no way of knowing if that is true. If the exporters of the south were used to paying X dollars per ton to ship their cargo then why wouldn't the European shippers charge the same?
Again, not about slavery.
From the southern standpoint, yes it was.
“It’s really good for the South though, because the shippers can’t gouge them anymore.”
Now you’re saying the Europeans were dumb. They had to have been to know they had NO competition with U.S. shippers out of the picture, and not change whatever they wanted to.