Word: grevious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most grevious effect of American tariffs is the bitter resentment generated in foreign nations unable to sell their goods here. Restrictions against exporters in Italy, for example, have increased the strength of anti-American groups in that country. Other North Atlantic allies have voiced their dissatisfaction in sharp denunciations of the U. S.'s stringent tariff barriers. As Canada's Prime Minister warned, "We don't want to see the kind of will develop which (U. S.) tariffs inevitably create." So while time and dollars are spent to win friends abroad, the United States is helping defeat its own program...