Word: tariff
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Three prizes, of $150; $100, and $50, have been offered by the American Protective Tariff League for essays by undergraduate students of senior classes in colleges and universities of the United States on the following subject: "Effects of the Underwood Tariff Law of 1913 as bearing upon the question: Protection versus Free-trade." Essays must be received at 339 Broadway, New York City, on or before May 1 of this year...
...American Protective Tariff League offers three prizes of $150, $100, and $50, for an essay competition open to seniors in American colleges, the subject to be "The Effects of the Underwood Tariff Law of 1913 as bearing on the question: Protection versus Free Trade. Compositions are due by May 1, 1915 at the League, 339 Broadway, New York N. Y., where further information may also be obtained. The award will be announced June 1, 1915. The League retains the right to publish any essay...
...Some Aspects of the Tariff Question" is the title of a book by Professor F. W. Taussig '79, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, which is now in preparation at the University Press, and will be issued at an early date. This book is, in the opinion of able economists, the most important work on international trade by an American scholar. The subject has really not been treated in any new light since the time of John Stuart Mill, and a study such as this has been long awaited by students of the subject. The author is a great authority...
...concluding chapters of the volume take up the textile industries, silks, cottons, and woolens. As an introduction to the consideration of the last-named, there is a chapter on the raw material, and the effect of the duties which were maintained up to its free admission under the tariff...
This book should not be confused in any way with Professor Taussig's "Tariff History of the United States." This latter deals chiefly with the history of legislation, while the new book considers the economic consequences of tariff duties...