[PeaRidge]

Nonsense. To get the goods, the New York merchant need only transfer them internally from Charleston, or up the Mississippi from New Orleans and so forth. Barring the logistically impossible establishment of custom houses at every road, railway, waterway, and river across the north-south border between Virginia and Arkansas, he could do so without paying a single tariff

[Bull Snipe]

Your whole premise is that the Great Southern Trading economy would rest on smuggling to avoid the tariff. Now that’s nonsense.