Foreign Affairs, The Benjamin Harrison Administration
The concept of reciprocity in international trade involves the adjustment of one nation's tariff rates in exchange for similar adjustments (or other trade concessions) from another nation. The enactment of the McKinley Tariff in 1890 triggered swift retaliation by other countries. As rates were raised against American goods in foreign nations, Western and Southern farmers besieged Washington with complaints about their growing inability to sell produce abroad. The Harrison administration began negotiations to blunt the impact of the McKinley rates in return for easing restrictions on American goods.
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