Word: importe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...export trade to the U. S. when the new higher tariff bill is passed at Washington (see p. 13); 2) Canadian newspapers are clamoring that the Dominion should retaliate by raising her tariff on goods which the U. S. is anxious to sell to Canada; 3) Canada has been importing every year some 50 million dollars worth of U. S. coal; 4) If Canada should choose to put a high tariff on "non-British coal" (i.e. on U. S. coal) she would first be retaliating potently upon the U. S., and second she would be in a position...
...foreign valuation it would pay a duty of $1.05 on entering the U. S. and go into the domestic market at $2.55. A U. S. lancet of the same character and quality sells for $2.50. If U. S. Valuation were applied to the German lancet on import, it would have to pay a duty of $1.75, giving it a sale price...
...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...
...greater social import than the problem of the Vice President's official hostess, is the problem of night-club hostesses in free-&-easy Manhattan, where Assistant Attorney Mabel Walker Willebrandt lately lost her Prohibition cases against the two outstanding personages of nocturnal fame, Mary Louise ("Texas") Guinan and Helen Morgan. Manhattanites were interested last week in the following statement by Miss Guinan...
...idealized brotherhood of nations. But, if it is possible for the host engaged in this form of endeavor to shake off the patronizing sentimentality that at present casts an altogether too holy shadow over such efforts, the underlying economic and political significances may be found to be of some import. The present organization, founded on a sound mechanical basis, has at least a greater opportunity than the confusedly related bodies that surround it, to arrive at a conclusion worthy of the attempt...