Agricultural tariffs today are four to eight times as high as tariffs on industrial goods.
Agricultural tariffs today are four to eight times as high as tariffs on industrial goods. For certain products, agricultural tariffs are shockingly high: Japan's tariff on rice has been as high as 1,364 percent.
Source: William Krist, "All Together Now: Take the Free-Market Plunge," The Christian Science Monitor, February 12, 2004, 9.