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Mercantilism acted as a deterrent to free trade by enacting barriers in the same ways as protectionism. Restricting trade by tariffs hurt the country enacting the tariff as much as the countries that were forced to pay the tariff. In the end retaliatory tariffs caused the system to fail.
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