Word: importers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Desperate for ready cash* in the till-without which she cannot continue to import the raw materials necessary for her military machine-Germany month ago turned to systematic spoliation of her Jews. Unless her foreign trade position improves, she may next squeeze the vast holdings of the Catholic Church and perhaps the wealth of the upper middleclass...
...through Parliament which will enable the Government to extend sizable export credits to China. From the U. S. also came a $25,000,000 loan (much of which undoubtedly will be used to buy U. S. trucks and motor parts) granted by the New Deal's Export-Import Bank-interpreted as the U. S. answer to Japan's slamming the once open door to U. S. commerce in the occupied regions. Another boost to China came in the form of 15 fighting planes contributed by sympathizers in the U. S., Canada and Cuba...
Following a $25,000,000 credit extended to Chinese commercial interests by the Export-Import Bank, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., announced that a fiscal arrangement assuring the Chinese government adequate dollar exchange facilities has been continued by this country beyond December...
...guts to do it, to send tariffs sky high, and to clamp on import quotas, we could still break Japan and save China," declared William Y. Elliott, professor of Government, in a discussion of "Economic Sanctions in American Diplomacy" at Leverett House Common Room, last night...
...economic sphere, Professor Haring sees as possible accomplishments of the conference the reduction of existing trade barriers chiefly through elimination of import quotas, and a controlled exchange system...