Editing McKinley Tariff (section)

===Tin-plates===
[[Tin-plate]]s were a major import for the United States. Tens of millions of dollars in these goods entered the country each year.<ref name="Taussig 1892, p. 273" />  In the preceding 20 years, tariff rates had been raised and dropped multiple times on tin-plates with no change in import levels, and domestic production had remained inconsequential. In a last attempt to stimulate the [[infant industry|infant domestic]] tin-plate industry, the Act raised the duty level from 30% to 70%.<ref>Taussig 1892, p. 274</ref> It also included a unique provision that stated tin-plates should be admitted free of any duty after 1897 unless domestic production in any year reached one-third of the imports in that year.<ref>[[Charles S. Olcott|Olcott, C. S.]], ''The Life of William McKinley'', vol 1 ([[Boston]]: [[Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|Houghton Mifflin]], 1916), [https://books.google.com/books?id=cxL5AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA172 p. 172].</ref> The goal was for the duty to be protective or not to exist at all.