With the events of 150 years ago this week in Montgomery, Ala. something I have never really heard very much on as far as the impact is the effect these events would or could have had on the export trade from New Orleans.

With Louisiana and Mississippi formally becoming a part of this new country of the Confederate States of American, any goods shipped down the Mississippi to New Orleans, or shipped up the Mississippi from New Olreans would be subject to any tarriffs and taxes of this new Country. I am wondering if this was much of a consideration in states like Arkansas, Missouri, Kentucky, and Tennessee to eventually join the Confederacy and the trade of other states such as Illinois, Indiana, Ohio that depended on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to get their goods to markets.

I am not sure that the Confederacy ever imposed and such tarriffs since there was no free trade during the existance of the Confederacy, but during the early months of 1861 when farmers and planter were preparing to plant their spring crops, especially the Cotton plantations along the Mississippi River, I am wondering if how they were going to get their cotton to the European markets, was on thier mines.

I know that in the Confederacy itself the Cotton Trade was going to be a very important part of their economy. I am assuming the port of New Orleans would be and important revenue center for that new Confederacy. So I would reason that taxes and tarriffs would be imposed on goods coming from states outside the Confederate States being shipped through the port of New Orleans.