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...This tariff would provide a guaranteed income for the united group, Steel explained...
...Kennedy was the only Senator from tariff-conscious New England to vote for the President's liberalized international trade program...
...small Insular Lumber Co., called for an increased flow of private U.S. capital abroad, more lending authority for the Government's Export-Import Bank. It also put itself squarely on the side of free trade in the coming congressional battle by protectionists to end President Eisenhower's tariff-cutting powers, which are up for renewal next June 30. Rather than revoke the powers, said the council, Congress should extend them "with adequate authority to safeguard vital interests of domestic American industries in line with the national interest...
Cooler friendships between the U.S. and three hemisphere neighbors seemed a sure result as the U.S. Tariff Commission began hearings this week in Washington on tariffs for imported lead and zinc. Heavy administration pressure was on the commission to raise the tariffs; President Eisenhower promised last August that he would request it to "expedite its consideration of the matter." Even before the hearings began, anguished complaints came from Canada, Peru and Mexico...
...hemisphere producers are grumbling loudly. "I've always felt [the Americans] were fair-weather friends," said an official of the Canadian Metal Mining Association. "When the pinch is on-wham! Someone starts talking tariffs." Peruvians say that any tariff hike, no matter how small, will put most of the country's lead and zinc producers out of business, cost the country 14% of its export income...