What you did here was not done because you are a fool, it was done in the full knowledge that you were being deceitful.
You know very well "trade" always comes down to swapping one thing for another. "Cash" is only the intermediary for what is actually occurring.
It is this sort of deliberate deceit that makes a discussion with many on your side not worth anyone's trouble.
I know enough to know that trade will go where the customers are. And what a Confederate port charges in tariff is irrelevant to goods destined for U.S. consumers. Those goods will continue to go to New York or Boston or Philadelphia. The lost revenue would only be that small fraction of imported goods that had been destined for Southern consumers before the split.
Sorry, FRiend, but all the "deliberate deceit" on these threads comes from our Lost Cause mythologizers, Democrat propagandists and Marxist dialecticians… but I repeat myself.