Printable family unit
Trade, Tariffs, and Prices
A five day homeschool unit on imports, exports, tariffs, consumer prices, producers, workers, and retaliation for ages 11 through 16.
24 pages5 lessons1 household
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How can I explain tariffs to a student?
Follow one imported product from the foreign producer to the importer and seller. Calculate the customs payment, then distinguish who sends the payment from who may ultimately carry the cost through prices, profits, wages, production, exchange rates, or retaliation.
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Core questions support younger students. Extension prompts add analysis for older students without requiring a separate purchase.
Student workbook pages
Core work for ages 11 through 13
Extension work for ages 14 through 16
Complete answer key
Final project and grading rubric
Downloadable household copy
Five day sequence
Each lesson builds toward a reasoned conclusion
All figures and households in the activities are fictional. Students can practice without disclosing private family finances.
Follow an import
Trace a product from a foreign producer through transport, customs, and a local seller.
Calculate a tariff
Apply a tariff rate to a customs value and explain what the calculation does not predict.
Who absorbs the cost
Compare cases where importers, sellers, consumers, or foreign producers carry part of the cost.
Jobs, inputs, and retaliation
Evaluate benefits for protected firms alongside costs for users of imported inputs and exporters.
Write a tariff policy briefing
Make a recommendation supported by calculations, affected groups, and acknowledged uncertainty.
Know what to prepare before you choose.
Suggested starting session. Adjust the pace to your learners.
- Suggested audience
- 12–18
- Session length
- 30 minutes
- Prerequisites
- Calculate percentages and describe supply and demand.
- Preparation
- 5–10 minutes: paper and a calculator.
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Preview the teaching approach
Calculate, then explain what the number means.
Students follow an imported good, calculate a tariff, trace who may absorb the cost, compare competing job effects, and build a policy briefing with stated limits.
- No child account or personal profile
- No real household income questions
- No unsupported current claims
- Publisher sources for economic definitions
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