Word: tariff
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Americans continue to voice support for protectionism. Given the choice between a policy of quotas and tariffs rather than reliance on free trade, 57% chose the former course. More specifically, 53% approve of a proposal to impose a 25% tariff on goods from countries that have a large trade surplus with the U.S. The poll found that 63% support such measures against Japan. For Democrats desperately seeking to steal some of Reagan's almost magical popularity, these figures could represent a dangerous temptation. Already, feeling appears to be growing in favor of raising the tariff walls as a quick...
...make more of those goods available will reduce his country's burgeoning surplus with the U.S. But if the program fails to show quick results, Japan may face retaliation. Congress has before it a stack of protectionist bills, including a measure to add a 20% across-the-board tariff to imports. --By Janice Castro. Reported by Gisela Bolte/Washington and Edwin M. Reingold/Tokyo
...doesn't apply to everyone all the time, but you need to have a business model that's sustainable in the face of a growing China." From his office, Ian Campbell looks out on a vista of marooned shipping containers and the rusting industrial landscape of western Melbourne. Tariff cuts have taken a toll, to be sure, but most heavyweight manufacturers have decamped for China, leaving the country's industrial and engineering heartland as a distribution hub and home to small, parochial players. If you want to get the friendly Campbell really riled, ask him about bilateral trade deals...
John L. Durant ’05 had two ideas of his own. “As with tariff policy, I believe in reciprocity and subsequent multilateral reductions in dining hall restrictions,” he said...
America's two main diplomats at the time were John Adams in London and Jefferson in Paris. Together they called upon Ambassador Abdrahaman, the envoy of Tripoli in London, in March 1786. This dignitary mentioned a tariff of three payments--for the ransom of slaves and hostages, for cheap terms of temporary peace and for more costly terms of "perpetual peace." He did not forget to add his own commission as a percentage. Adams and Jefferson asked to know by what right he was exacting these levies. The U.S. had never menaced or quarreled with any of the Muslim powers...