[Non-Sequitur]

The confederate tariff rates were at about the same level that the U.S. tariff had been when the south seceded.

[GOPcapitalist]

The confederate tariff rates were at about the same level that the U.S. tariff had been when the south seceded.

That is because they adopted the pre-Morrill tariff schedule of 1857 with an average rate of about 15% - one of the lowest schedules that had ever been in place up until that time. They then lowered that schedule to an average rate of just over 13% in May 1861. Compare that to the yankee rate, which went up to 36% then over 45%.