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...Passed, by voice vote, an Administration-backed bill to simplify import duties, replacing a confusing two-value assessment system with a system of duties based on the price a U.S. importer pays for foreign merchandise. The customs simplification bill, first major foreign-trade measure passed this session, now goes to House-Senate conference...
...shortage of capital, Brazil urgently needs help from the U.S. Last week a mission headed by Engineer Lucas Lopes, who is President Juscelino Kubitschek's No. 1 economic-development braintruster, arrived in Washington from Rio to ask for massive loans from the U.S. Government's Export-Import Bank...
...provide single production and selling group for coal and steel has asked three big U.S. investment houses (Kuhn, Loeb; First Boston; Lazard Frères) to help plan multimillion loan to modernize coal mines, coking plants, etc. Previously, Community borrowed $100 million from U.S. Export-Import Bank...
...Germans in World War I. A princely spender even in the days when spending came easily to India's princes, Patiala's Maharajah was an enthusiastic cricketer and polo player as well, and his enthusiasm for the hunt was such that he was forced to import tigers by the dozen from neighboring states to eke out his own rapidly dwindling stock...
Deak figures that the best bargain in New York is in currencies of countries that have no import limits, although their official rates stand much higher than the free rate. Among these are France's franc (which was selling in the U.S. last week at 395 to the dollar, v. 350 in Paris), Bolivia's boliviano (5,5°° ". 190), Argentina's peso. Even where limits exist-as in Spain, Finland, Turkey-tourists can take in the legal amount and still make a saving. Where money is stable and the saving small, travelers still find...