Word: tariff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Former Arizona Gov. Bruce Babbit also opposes an oil import fee. Babitt favors research in renewable energy technology, such as superconductivity, to reduce U.S. dependency instead of a tariff, said Vada Manager, an aide to the Democratic hopeful...
...propose a free-trade treaty to Reagan during the second "shamrock summit," which took place last year. Reagan, an avowed free trader, embraced the idea. But even as negotiations proceeded, bitter disputes arose. In one case, the Administration bowed to pressure from U.S. lumber companies by slapping a 35% tariff on Canadian cedar shakes and shingles...
...weighted irons and sold 12,000 sets in 15 months; 6,000 sets of its new metal woods were sold in seven months. In June, Slotline began construction of a new factory in St. Andrews, Scotland, the cradle of golf. The plant will be able to ship clubs tariff-free to the big European market...
...marquee. On the left, in a glass display case -- the Wall of Fame -- are the shoes of the famous hoofers who have cut a rug here. Betty Grable. Ruby Keeler. Anthony Quinn. Eleanor Powell. George Raft (tiny feet). Gregory Hines (boats). The cashier is on the right. The tariff is eight bucks. The ticket taker says sure, he'll get the manager. Call him Mr. Adam, on account of his surname starting in Little Italy and ending in Greece (Giannopoulos...
Today members of the European Economic Community can resist some American economic pressures, such as our recent demands for tariff reductions and coordination of fiscal and monetary policies, but they remain at the beck and call of U.S. military planners. U.S. pressure to "share" SDI technology has left many European leaders, who remember the Maginot Line, frustrated at the extravagence and rigidity of American planners. At the same time, Reagan's wild unilateralism at the Reykjavik summit has raised fears that defense plans for Europe are too little dependent on European consent--and too much on American caprice...