Word: quota
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refusal was the sugar tariffs which would naturally be set up against the Philippines as a foreign nation. This economic possibility had won the votes of the American sugar interests, both the Louisiana cane bloc and the Western beet growers headed by Smoot. They had already established a low quota and a high tariff against Cuba and they objected to Philippine free trade in this commodity. There is no question that they were perfectly justified in wishing to end the competition of American and Philippine sugar production. But American capital had previously overdeveloped cane plantations in Cuba; and the depression...
President Roosevelt recognized this situation when he brought before Congress a lowered tariff and an increased quota for Cuba, and at the same time attempted to decrease the sugar beet production. But the howls of the Smoot coalition were not needed to remind him that the Philippine competition was the nigger in his economic woodpile...
Going great guns last week was a full-sized trade war between France and Britain. Repeal in the U. S. was largely to blame. Fighting for a larger share of the newly-established liquor trade, France agreed to accept greatly increased quotas of U. S. apples and pears in return for more wine shipped to the U. S. (TIME, Jan. 1). Anxious as France is to help her vintners, she is still more firmly bound to the quota system and economic self-sufficiency. Hence some other import quotas had to be decreased, and it was the British that suffered. British...
...present Japan has built enough ships to make up the quota allowed her in the London treaty; the United States and England have not yet done so. Whatever happens in the next year, war will not be the outcome; my country and yours will see to that by building up their fleets. It may, however, lead to very bad conditions in Japan herself...
...cotton gin if the new tax on surplus goes into effect. Will it be surreptitiously sold? With a surplus be grown? Human nature thus far has resisted control almost everywhere, even in Russia, where the peasants from time to time have refused to give the government its full quota of wheat because they needed it for their food...