[PeaRidge]

"I suggest you get your terminology straight"

Why don't you write the Treasury department and complain. That is their terminology and was used in their record keeping.

For each custom house, inbound goods were labeled "imports". Some were non-dutible by law, some were non-dutible because they came from another part of the country.

The reason you are so confused is that you have been assuming that the inflow of products that were labeled imports were from overseas sources only.

In fact the vast majority of inbound goods for the consumption of the South were northern manufactures.

They were labeled imports, but were not dutiable.

Now do you understand why that $362 was so outlandishly wrong, and your completely wrong conclusion stood out like a sore thumb?

[Heyworth]

So basically you've been playing word games with this information for the last week or more. You tell us that Lincoln was obsessed with collecting the tariff from the southern ports because the south imported so much (and that's where you started throwing out the $332 million number), but now it turns out that that number includes "imports" from the north which weren 't subject to tariff anyway. So now we arrive at the conclusion that the per capita consumption of actual tariff-subject imports was probably more in line with that of the north, meaning that of the $53 million in tariffs collected in 1860, probably about $10 million would have been on goods destined for consumption in the south.

[Non-Sequitur]

Now do you understand why that $362 was so outlandishly wrong, and your completely wrong conclusion stood out like a sore thumb?

Nope, but I can see once again where you are as full of crap as a Christmas turkey. Why would goods from one section of the country pass through the customs house of another port in the country? Didn't the customs houses have enough? Did goods that travelled by train have to clear customs as well? Your fairy tales hold no water, just like most of the rest of your crap.