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You are relating apples to oranges. Apples: A conventional tariff is a tax on imports designed to protect domestic industries from foreign competition. Many economists consider it a harmful policy that creates economic inefficiency. It discourages free trade, raises consumer prices, and can provoke retaliatory tariffs from other countries, reducing overall economic welfare. Oranges: A carbon tax is a Pigovian tax designed to correct a market failure like negative externality of pollution. Pollution is a societal cost that is not reflected in the market price of goods and services. A carbon tax internalizes this cost, making polluters pay for the harm they cause. The policy's goal is to improve the efficiency of the market by accounting for the true cost of carbon-intensive products, which drives innovation toward cleaner alternatives. better equivalent would probably be Manchineel Apples ( [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] ) to Sanguinello Oranges [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] | |||
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Definition: A cost that is imposed on an unrelated third party. Oh. I want external externalities. | |||
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In economics, the term "externality" means the cost is experienced by a party external to the transaction. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] | |||
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Both increase the cost of manufacturing in different parts of the world resulting in reduced carbon footprint. Both are a sales tax. Best you can argue is one is a higher tax than the other.
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A Tariff is a duty on imports. A Carbon Tax is an excise tax on the use of a pollutant; an input cost. The carbon tax aims to reduce the carbon footprint; the conventional tariff does not and increases it by promoting less-efficient production. | |||
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Last edited by Botten; 10-25-2025 at 11:42 PM..
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Carbon Taxes = Tariffs: https://econofact.org/carbon-taxes-a...rns?utm_source Quote:
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Last edited by shovelquest; 10-25-2025 at 11:49 PM..
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The confusion arises because a complete, effective carbon tax policy must include a component that acts like a tariff to remain competitive. This component is the Border Carbon Adjustment (BCA), which is what your Econofact article was discussing. So ... [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] | |||
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Riddle me this (an attempt to sound like Reiwa) Why is tariffs on disposable goods from amazon shipped from china bad. But tariffs on cheap EV cars from china good?
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Last edited by shovelquest; 10-26-2025 at 12:29 AM..
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The "most efficient" production, in the traditional private sense, is often the one that offloads its pollution costs (externalities) onto society for free, thereby appearing cheap while making everyone else pay for the damage. A carbon tax works by forcing the polluter to include that societal cost in their price, thus correcting the imbalance and making the truly efficient, cleaner methods more profitable. Thou you have point. | |||
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