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# Customs Duties
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## Definition
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Taxes imposed on goods imported from foreign countries, which historically
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were intended to tax the profits of merchants but now serve primarily as a
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source of revenue and sometimes as instruments of monopoly or trade regulation.
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## Source Chapter
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Book V, Chapter 2
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## Context
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Smith traces the history of customs duties from their origins as taxes on
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merchant profits to their current role in revenue generation, and critiques
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their use as instruments of monopoly rather than revenue.
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## Economic Domain
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General Theory
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