What is generally your policy? As I'm usually rolling in money, I usually just subsidize all the way. Are tariffs better?
Then I would personally drop them, in theory your capitalists should build a more stable and profitable economy based on world demand and not the artificial one imposed on them through your tariffs.But if money was not a problem(I'm making way too much), would you still use tariffs?
Far as I know, everyone gets their goods on the local market first no matter what. Thus saying that high tariffs makes them get it locally first is .. well.. wrong ;P
I also thought so, but .
at some point my whole money starved.
My industries hardly sold anything.
After i raised tariffs first up to 40%, and some days later up to 100%.
my money was raising extremely.
And my industry goods sold better.
market activity told me that time, trade ledger told me , max export value about 150k and import something about 8k. I still do import grain ,.. may 2 G people are too much for my only unciv/colony gains....
try it
So if the main problem is over-supply then it can't be helped?
Pops get their goods from whichever is cheapest, so raising tariffs usually means they'll get goods from the local market. Alternately, if your country is importing a lot of goods, then lowering tariffs can make those goods cheaper, thus making your producers more effective and able to pay you more taxes...