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...TARIFFS. The reciprocal trade agreements act expires in June. Tariff reduction will be more important than ever, in view of the "trade rather than aid" emphasis in foreign policy...
...Tariff Curtain...
Perhaps ... an outside comment may be in order . . . To us the salient point to grasp seems to be that no country, like the U.S., is entitled to expect others to provide a market for American exports unless equal, competitive entry of foreign processed goods is permitted. Your ultra-high tariff has, up to now, blocked this mutual equation . . . Up to the beginning of World War II, this gap was plugged principally by the shipments of gold to Fort Knox, in place of goods. Since the end of the war, the dollar shortage abroad was offset by temporary devices, such...
...Board set forth that "the fathers of the American tariff system never intended that permanent protection for a particular industry should be established. They argued that a tariff wall should . . . protect an industry only during its formative period." American industry, said the Board, has now come of age; it can compete on equal terms with any other nation in the world. Why maintain tariffs...
Among the tariff changes recommended...