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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Estimators could show that the new rate would add 100 million dollars to the country's retail sugar bill. The sugar schedule immediately added to the disgruntlement of U. S. farmers who do not look upon the beet sugar industry, with its roaming alien labor, as a legitimate form of U. S. husbandry...
...group was completely satisfied with the House bill. The schedules on tobacco, wines and spirits alone escaped some sort of alteration by the committee. Out of the 626 paragraphs in the 1922 Tariff Law which this measure amends and replaces, 233 were changed. President Hoover's insistence upon "limited" tariff revision produced shifts in about one-third of the rates, practically all of them upwards. In the chemical schedule, for instance, there were 39 changes?33 up, six down...
...textile industries received added protection?approximately a 10% increase over present rates. In New England, gratification at this benefit was tempered by disappointment at the bill's failure to shift leather shoes from the free to the dutiable list. The House committee was pressed by the farmers for a duty on hides, which was rejected and with it New England's plea for a shoe duty. Committeemen felt they could not "defend" such an increase on the House floor...
...present Commission, to recommend a change in rate, must conduct a long investigation into foreign production cost. When the inquiry is over, the need for the change has generally passed, or increased beyond the Commission's measurement. The new bill proposes that the Commission accelerate its work by studying only the "condition of competition" in the domestic market and making its recommendations thereon...
...Valorem. The valuation of imports under the new bill cropped up as a controversial problem. There are two bases of valuation, foreign and U. S. By and large the new bill retains foreign valuation, i. e., the value the foreign producer sets upon his article, or the price for which he sells it in his own country. But cunningly woven into Administrative language is a new threat against foreign producers who undervalue their imports to cheat the U. S. tariff. If the U. S. appraiser is not satisfied with the foreign valuation placed on an article for import...