Ozerova A. G.

THE TARIFF PROBLEM IN THE BRITISH-AMERICAN-CANADIAN ECONOMIC RELATIONS AT THE END OF THE XIX — THE BEGINNING OF THE XX CENTURY (OVERVIEW)

The article discusses the influence of American tariff policy on the complex of US-Canadian, British-American British-Canadian relations. The protectionist tariffs of the United States (in particular, the McKinley tariff, the Payne-Aldrich tariff) adopted at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries significantly influenced the trade and economic relations of the United States and Canada. There was a certain rapprochement between the countries, which could not but concern Britain, because Canada was its dominion. At the same time, the British Empire could not create obvious obstacles to the establishment of US-Canadian relations, although the parliament expressed some dissatisfaction on this issue. The US attempt to find new markets for its products complicated relations with the UK, as the spheres of influence of the two countries intersected. Economic relations cannot be considered in isolation from the political interaction of states, so the clash of trade interests between London and Washington complicated the «great rapprochement» between the countries. The stabilization of bilateral relations of these countries depended not just on the economic situation, but on the distribution of spheres of influence. Despite the presence of contradictions, the United States and Great Britain were interested in maintaining friendly relations, while not inferior to the enemy the Canadian market.

Keywords: tariff policy, Dominion Canada, economic relations, US-Canadian rapprochement, Anglo-American relations

OSU named after I. S. Turgene (Russia)

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