Responding to the First Era of Globalization: Canadian Trade Policy, 1870–1913
利用1870–1913年加拿大进口值和关税的产品级数据，结合1871年工业普查的企业生产信息，发现1879年国家政策后保护主义高度选择性地针对那些有国内大企业生产替代品的制造品。
In this article we document Canada’s trade policy response to late nineteenth and early twentieth century globalization by linking newly digitized annual productspecific data on the value of Canadian imports and duties paid from 1870–1913, to establishment-specific production and location information drawn from the manuscripts of the 1871 industrial census. We find evidence of a highly selective move towards protectionism following the adoption of the National Policy in 1879. Changes in the Canadian tariff schedule narrowly targeted manufactured import products that had close substitutes produced by relatively large, urban, politically influential domestic manufacturers.