Word: tariff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...French presence in Brussels had been arranged six weeks earlier in Luxembourg by a compromise in which France and the other five EEC countries somewhat tenuously agreed to try to smooth over their rift without removing its causes. Still, before the European Economic Community can strip away the remaining tariff barriers to farm and industrial trade among its six members, it must wind its way through a maze of outstanding issues. Foremost among them...
...hunger and disease and ignorance," specifically through the programs carrying unmistakable Johnson-brand names-the International Education Act and the International Health Act. The President estimated that it would cost $1 billion next year to internationalize the Great Society. Beyond that, he spoke strongly in favor of cutting tariff barriers and of expanding U.S. trade with Communist countries in Europe-even though such a stand will certainly meet powerful opposition in a war-conscious Congress...
...mangrove swamps and jungled hills. So far, 47 factories there make products ranging from ships and socks to tires and toothpaste, and another 16 plants are abuilding. But the factories were designed to supply the federation's 11 million customers, and since the breakup Malaysia has erected high tariff walls against Singapore-made goods. Result: most factories have cut production drastically, are searching for overseas markets to take up the slack. They are plagued by strike-prone unions, face increasingly stiff competition from aggressive and more experienced manufacturers in Hong Kong, Japan and Formosa...
...truly new Europe seemed to take shape in the remarkable progress of the Common Market ever since France, West Germany, Italy and the Benelux countries signed the Treaty of Rome nearly nine years ago. As the tariff walls within the Six came tumbling down, trade doubled in a cornucopian flow of cars and caramels, typewriters and transistors, that made shops in the six countries part of one great international bazaar. The resulting boom fattened their gross national products by 38% since 1958 (v. 28% for the U.S.). Despite the erection of a common tariff against the outside world...
...nickel. France has protested strongly to the U.S., and negotiations are going on between the two governments. The U.S. does not seem to be in any hurry to compromise, however, so long as General de Gaulle continues to make trouble for NATO, the Common Market and the Kennedy Round tariff talks...