Surely.
Aside for the recommending that you familiarize yourself with the forty years of escalating sectional tensions arising from slavery beginning with the Missouri Compromise, followed by Texas Admission, The Wilmont Proviso, The Compromise of 1850, The Kansas-Nebraska Act, The Dred Scott Decision, the Fugitive Slave Act, "Bloody Kansas," Harpers Ferry, and culminating in the election of a president representing the "Free Soil Movement", you need to understand that tariffs, under the US Constitution, can not be and have never been applied to exports, from the South or anywhere else. They are only applied to imports, and had existed since the first days of the Republic, and were at their lowest levels ever in 1860 when secession began. You also need to understand that one of the first acts of the Confederate Congress was to enact a set of tarrifs nearly identical to the set that applied before secession.
"Surely."
You know, it's entirely possible you're correct. It's also entirely possible that my college professors "processed" the information for a general studies class. (I am an engineer, not a historian). It's also possible my memory is faulty, but at least I'm willing to listen and be educated. This information isn't essential for my work, nor my daily life, but I am curious, and like to know facts, not someone's version of the truth.
What seems certain is that you have a very arrogant and condescending way about you.
I can be educated on this topic. As for you, well, you have a much steeper hill to climb.
Ditto, I'm impressed with your knowledge of this. Do you have any suggestions if I wanted to research this on my own at a later time?
"...you need to understand that tariffs, under the US Constitution, can not be and have never been applied to exports, from the South or anywhere else."
Simply wrong.