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I'm not sure we can tell who paid the tariff fees by these figures. It certainly shows NY ports collecting lots of money, but it doesn't say who paid (was it Southrons, Yanks, Europeans, etc.?).

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That answer begs the obvious question: if the southern demand for imported good was so high then why weren’t the goods shipped directly to them? If the south actually did pay a disproportionate amount of the tariff collected, as DiLorenzo claims, then one would assume that they had the economic clout to insist that the goods be sent to them. Why fool around with a stop in New York and the added expense of loading the goods again for shipment south? And it’s not like the south was out of the way. Several million bales of cotton were sent overseas from southern ports each year. The ships that came calling to load the cotton could have brought millions of dollars of goods for import with them, if the demand had been there. The fact that they did not do this is the clearest evidence that southern demand for imported goods was not large enough to make the effort worth while. The south did pay a disproportionate amount of the tariffs collected, but is was a disproportionately small amount.