Responding to the First Era of Globalization: Canadian Trade Policy, 1870–1913

Patrick Alexander and Ian Keay

Staff Working Papers from Bank of Canada

Abstract: In this paper we document Canada’s trade policy response to late-nineteenth- and earlytwentieth-century globalization. We link newly digitized annual product-specific 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. Our findings reveal a highly selective move towards protectionism following the adoption of the National Policy in 1879. Changes in the Canadian tariff schedule narrowly targeted final consumption goods that had close substitutes produced by relatively large, politically influential domestic manufacturers.

Keywords: Trade integration; Economic models; International topics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F F1 F13 F14 F42 F60 N N71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 44 pages
Date: 2018
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