Selvedge Magazine Issue 128 - RoutesTrade tariffs, which raise the price of imported goods to protect domestic industries, have dominated headlines throughout 2025. Yet this economic strategy is nothing new. In the late Middle Ages, English monarchs Edward III and Henry VII imposed high export tariffs on raw wool to discourage its sale to Flemish weavers. Centuries later, during the Industrial Revolution, Britain levied steep duties on imported Indian cottons to protect its developing