Please provide a link to a source for your alleged information about imports in 1860. You are the guy who thought that tariffs are charged on exports, not imports. Yes, the South exported plenty of cotton but imported almost nothing.
"You are the guy who thought that tariffs are charged on exports, not imports."
No, that was someone else.
Here is one source:
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761557415/Confederate_States_of_America.html
After you read that one, I have several more.