Word: importent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This import, by withdrawing the cheap copper imported from South America from the domestic markets, would favor home production at high operating costs. Yet it would also hamper the prosperity of many U. S. companies, like Anaconda, which have provided themselves with cheap foreign sources of supply. On the other hand, certain high-grade U. S. copper mines, like Kennecott in Alaska, would make astonishing profits...
...charges payable by Germany to the Allied and Associated Powers" for War costs. Rumania is an Associated Power. The Rumanian claim of $75,000,000 is a War cost. Nevertheless, Rumania demanded payment outside of the Experts' Plan, threatened last week to seize German property and triple the import tax on German goods, began to deport Germans...
...many weeks negotiations have been in progress at Paris between the French and German Governments for a new commercial treaty. Since economic conditions in Germany are daily improving, thanks to the Experts' Plan, and since Germany must import and export if she is to pay the gigantic reparations bill, it would seem to follow that a mutually agreeable trade treaty would be made by the two countries...
...Geneva, Opium Week at the Palace of the League of Nations opened auspiciously with an agreement between Britain and Japan whereby Britain now consents to recognize Japan's opium import certificates (TIME, Nov. 24) when the drug is transshipped at Hongkong...
Then the question of opium import certificates was raised. Britain's representative said that she could not habitually recognize import certificates because of scandals over them in an Oriental country which he "preferred not to name." Japan took quick offence, said she was being discriminated against, virtually withdrew from the Congress, which was then adjourned until after a larger and more important general conference should have taken place...