Well, if the state seceded, it wouldn't owe tariffs, now would it? That was truly a weak rejoinder to what I stated, but I guess there really is nothing else you could say.
In any case, section 3 leaves it to the president's judgement.
And again, you as a lover of Constitution-mangling lefties like Clinton and Gore would certainly have no problem with a president practising dictatorial powers by mangling the meanings of words in the Militia Act.
States never paid tarifs in any case. Individuals did. But there laws covering how the tarrifs would be collected.
President Lincoln's 4/15/61 proclamation said something like, "the laws failing of execution in several states..."
And yes, the law leaves it to the president's judgment.
Unilateral state secession is revolution.
Walt