Word: nontariff
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...should be "showing the way in international economic cooperation." To that end, he would give the President power to 1) raise or lower tariffs at his discretion, with the eventual goal of eliminating them altogether, 2) grant tariff breaks to developing countries, and 3) negotiate away such nontariff barriers to international commerce as discriminatory health and safety regulations, subject to congressional...
...American challenge. France imposes the Common Market's 25?-a-bottle tax on U.S. wine, and bars entry of California wines with French place names, like Burgundy or Pinot de la Loire. By contrast, U.S. tariffs on wine imports are only about 7½? a bottle, and nontariff restrictions are practically nonexistent. California lobbyists are trying to persuade the Treasury to require that imports be sold in standard American-sized wine bottles of 4/5 quart (25.6 oz.). European wines usually come in 24-oz. containers or, as Ernest Gallo calls them, "cheater bottles." The French complain that to adopt...
...variable taxes," the Common Market restricts imports of U.S. grain, beef, pork, poultry, lard and dairy products. Duties on them rise or fall to ensure that their prices are no lower than the inflated prices of comparable EEC goods. American imports are also blocked by a plethora of nontariff devices: border taxes, health regulations and artificial technical restrictions. For instance, Italy bans American oranges on the grounds that their citrus scales could spread and contaminate Italian oranges...
...revaluation of strong currencies against the dollar to the full extent the U.S. deems necessary (around 12%). The tax is also designed to obtain some other concessions, including bigger subsidies from U.S. allies for the maintenance of G.I.s in NATO countries and the removal of import quotas and other nontariff barriers that hurt sales of U.S. goods abroad...
CALLAWAY: If we could get the European Economic Community to ease its nontariff barriers and take 10% of Japan's exports, instead of only the present 2%, that would ease Japanese pressure...