Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wonder the average tariff rate on U.S. imports from Canada is low. These imports are mainly raw materials that are duty-free, or have low tariff rates because the U.S. requires them. However, the duty on Canadian manufactured goods is so high that they are prevented from competing with your domestic industries. Thus, since these goods do not become actual imports, their tariff rates do not enter your calculation...
...Imports rose 15% during the year, with nearly all of the increase in U.S. manufactured goods to satisfy the rapidly improving Canadian standard of living...
...Ashforth sounded a little more like a barker making a midway spiel than a banker making a year-end report, he had good reason. Any Canadian taking stock of the nation's economy at the close of 1955 was bound to be buoyant. The year had begun with some 500,000 unemployed, and with spreading fears that Canada's postwar boom might be collapsing. Not only did such fears turn out to be unfounded, but 1955 turned out to be the best year Canada ever had. In Ottawa last week, the chief watchman of the country...
Unfilled Orders. In almost every part of the country, there was tangible evidence of industrial and business activity to back up Howe's statistics. In the Quebec wilderness, 325 miles north of Montreal, Canadian National Railways is building a $35 million line to Chibougamau, a newly developed copper field. At Hamilton, Ont., the big Steel Co. of Canada, which has spent $100 million on new mills since 1950, reported with rueful pride that it was a full year behind on some orders -and promptly laid on an additional $70 million expansion program. Western oil production increased nearly one-third...
...Canadian officials tried manfully to defend their embarrassing position. For one thing, they protested that they were unaware that Czechoslovakia was a New Zealand butter customer. Then Canadian Agriculture Minister James Gardiner explained that since such a comparatively small amount of butter was involved, the matter was unimportant. "This is nothing like the wheat situation," said Gardiner. "We've only got about 10 or 12 million Ibs. of butter that we don't need, and we're prepared to take a lower price for it." That was entirely correct-and it was virtually the same explanation that...