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Also last week the Treasury imposed higher anti-dumping duties on electric light bulbs and sneakers from Japan, celluloid-covered thumb tacks from Germany, saponified stearic acid from The Netherlands...
...dumping threat, for the U. S. not only has a law against foreigners dumping in the U. S., but even when the Secretary made his announcement the Treasury Department was considering forbidding imports of steel from Germany, tennis shoes, electric light bulbs and calcium carbide from Japan, stearic acid and thumb tacks from Holland, rock salt from Canada, woven wire fencing, sulphide paper and binder twine from England-all on the grounds of dumping. Following his wheat export proposal Mr. Wallace announced final details of the plan to raise hog and corn prices (TIME, Aug. 21): the Government will spend...