Word: imported
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Arthur Smithies, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy, added another reason for low tariffs, saying that the "development of African and Latin American countries is highly dependent upon low tariffs both in Western Europe and the United States." Agreements to lower import duties with the Common Market nations would soon extend to Africa and Latin America via "our most favored nation" tariff policy...
Haberler emphasized that Kennedy has a right to expect large concessions from the Common Market. The import duties of the Common Market are generally higher than the United States' tariff rates...
...talking about forming a common market. That kind of thing was all right for a well-developed Europe, they said, but backward Latin nations were too accustomed to protecting national industries with high tariff walls. And since a major slice of every government's revenue came from import and export duties, they could hardly be expected to agree on mutual tariff cutbacks. But last week seven Latin nations * brought their common market to life by simultaneously cutting tariffs against one another on 2,500 items of trade...
...years, skiing was a sport for sun burned huskies in low-slung plus fours and a handful of hardy girls willing to bundle up like a G.I. blanket roll. Now the whole shape of skiing has been changed by a trim, cozy and inordinately sexy import from Germany: stretch pants. Many a girl who did not know a slalom from a sitzmark has discovered that stretch pants round out her personality in a fetching manner and make a skiing weekend an opportunity rather than an ordeal; men linger on the trails to see rather than ski as the girls...
Because of the emigration of many Cuban planners, he said, Castro has had to import experts who frequently do not understand Cuba's problems...