8% on imported foreign goods, starting with glass and pottery (goods that the federal government wanted the states to start producing to become more selfsufficient exporting more goods than they imported)
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The nation's manufacturing industry was in jeopardy due to imported goods at very low prices. The Tariff of 1828 was one of many tariffs passed by Congress to impose tax on imported goods.
The Tonnage act of 1789 was a tax levied on ships that were coming into ports within the United States. The tax was based on the weight of the ship.
A tariff is a tax on imported goods.
The tariff was a tax on imported manufactured goods. This raised the price of imported products and made it easier for US manufacturers to compete. Very few of these manufacturers were in the South, so all the tariff did for southerners was to raise their cost of living by making them pay higher prices for the things they needed. The tariff was in essence a tax on them to subsidize northern industry.