The Tariff Reform League (TRL) was a protectionist British pressure group formed in 1903 to protest against what they considered to be unfair foreign imports and to advocate Imperial Preference to protect British industry from foreign competition.

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Tariff Reform and the survival of free trade before 1914. The central goals of the Fair Trade League were inherited by the Tariff Reform movement in the early twentieth century. This far more successful movement had what the Fair Trade League had lacked: inspiring and dynamic leadership, provided by Joseph Chamberlain.

Dec 1, 1997 · Historians of the Edwardian tariff reform movement have disagreed about its aims. This article examines the motivations of the leadership of the Tariff Reform League, which was by far the most influential organization in the tariff lobby.

First, tariff reform is seen as a form of anti-socialism, a way of raising revenue for welfare reforms without resorting to progressive taxation.1 Second, tariff reform is understood to be a response to anxieties about British economic decline.

"tariff reform" published on by null. A British fiscal policy designed to end the nation's adherence to free trade by the use of protective duties on imported goods.

This paper is concerned solely with the genesis of the 1903 Tariff Reform Movement. Why did a veteran, realistic politician like Joseph Chamberlain challenge Britain's long-sacrosanct free trade policy? What political, economic, social, or other factors influenced him to make his decision?

of Tariff Reform This paper is concerned solely with the genesis of the 1903 Tariff Reform Movement. Why did a veteran, realistic politician like Joseph Chamberlain challenge Britain's long-sacrosanct free trade policy? What political, economic, social, or other factors in-fluenced him to make his decision? Was he really the originator of