Couldn’t agree on territory borders
They supported tariffs because they would help Northern goods compete with foreign goods.
One such sentence could be this: "Some of the earliest humans who ever lived were nomads, who would roam around the land in search of food. Many of them migrated North, out of Africa and into Europe."
Peoples, cities and states have traded since antiquity but in the medieval period, things escalated so that goods travelled ever greater distances by land, river and sea. Great cities arose thanks to commerce and international trade such as Constantinople, Venice and Cairo.