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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...kinds of duties: 1) specific; 2) ad valorem, based on the value of the imported goods. The flat rate of 6? per lb. on fresh beef, is a specific duty. The rate of 40% on wire rope is an ad valorem duty. The first is fixed, regardless of price; the second varies with the value of the commodity. On many items the tariff is a combination of specific and ad valorem rates. (Example: violins, specific duty of $1.25 each, plus an ad valorem duty...
What Mr. Edgerton had in mind when he implied that the tariff rates were not so important as their administration was the two conflicting methods of valuing imports for customs purposes. One method, called Foreign, values an article at its fair sale price in the country of production, i.e., the price at which the importer buys it. The other method, called U. S., values an article at the U. S. sale price of a similar article. Illustration...
...into the domestic market at $2.55. A U. S. lancet of the same character and quality sells for $2.50. If U. S. Valuation were applied to the German lancet on import, it would have to pay a duty of $1.75, giving it a sale price...
Businessman Arnold Gushing Dickinson, president of the company, did sell it last week-to United Aircraft & Transport Corp. President Gordon Sohn Rentschler of Manhattan's National City Bank and his brother, President Frederick B. Rentschler of United Aircraft & Transport, had outbid Mr. Keys and others. The price was about $2,500,000 in United stock...
...Newark art-lovers trooped to see an exhibit arranged, designed and specially announced by Mr. Dana. In whispers they exclaimed over the beauty of the bowls, the form of the colored vases. Wisely they nodded their arty heads over the placard "Beauty has no relation to age, rarity or price." Then one art-lover gave an exclamation. The others fluttered to the side of the afflicted one, read a little note: "Every article in this room was selected at a Newark store, costs no more than...