Word: tariff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like the dickens all the way." ¶The House Ways & Means Committee is ready to recommend a bill providing a three-year extension of the reciprocal trade program, a compromise between President Eisenhower's five-year request and the one-year-and-no-more demands of the congressional tariff bloc. But regardless of heavy protectionist opposition, trade-minded committee Democrats and Republicans will stand pat behind the President's power to overrule Tariff Commission recommendations in the interests of U.S. trade as a whole. ¶Packing for a South American tour, Vice President Nixon nevertheless took time...
...singer, in an improvised lyric, referred to her broken romance with R.A.F. Group Captain Peter Townsend. At week's end she flew off for ten days in Tobago, British Guiana and British Honduras. Behind her, in Trinidad, Prime Minister Adams dug into the knotty problems-including overpopulation, unemployment, tariff and migration barriers within the islands-that the new nation faces...
...relaxed and cordial atmosphere created by these concessions, Prime Minister Macmillan and his aides made a pitch for German help against France. Britain has refused to join the six-nation, tariff-free European Common Market, but does not want to be shut out of a probable market of 165 million people. Britain would like to be an affiliate (along with ten other European nations) in a looser free-trade area, but as a price for letting the British in, France demands tariff preference throughout the British Commonwealth. Adenauer agreed to help...
...Chile's President Carlos Ibáñez, already badly upset over the low price of his country's all-important copper, last week canceled his scheduled state visit to President Eisenhower after Secretary of the Interior Fred Seaton proposed to restore the long-suspended U.S. copper tariff...
...that his request for a five-year extension of the reciprocal trade act was just a bargaining point. "I would like to set the record straight. It is a proposal dictated by the facts." Among the facts: six principal nations of Western Europe are embarked on a program of tariff reduction that will result in a tariff-free common market expected in 1962-and the U.S. will need the powers set out in the reciprocal trade act to bargain with the common market area to mutual advantage...