Word: tariffers
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...after day since the middle of January they had trooped in & out of quiet rooms in the Natural History Building, the Tariff Commission Building, the Government Auditorium and the National Archives Building in Washington. They were laden with briefcases, burdened with worries. Day after day they made their speeches to patiently attentive Government...
...interests; the tobacco growers, the potato growers; the manufacturers of jewelry, and of fishing tackle. None of them had a complete understanding of all the ramifications of the problems they discussed. But most of them were certain that their industries faced ruin if the U.S. continued to lower its tariff walls...
...listened to them, from 10 in the morning until (frequently) 9 at night, were representatives of State, War, Navy, Treasury, Agriculture and the Tariff Commission, sitting as subcommittees of the Committee for Reciprocity Information. In those rooms the U.S. Government was gathering the information it will need to write a tariff policy, on which all postwar foreign policy depends...
...April, Clayton's experts would go to Geneva, sit down with delegates of 17 other nations* and try to write the most ambitious contract for reciprocal lowering of tariffs the world has seen, and lay the foundation of an International Trade Organization. Every one of the 17 nations which will grant the U.S. greater access to their markets will be granted the same access to U.S. markets. Under the 1945 extension of the Trade Agreements Act, State can, without congressional approval, cut Jan. i, 1945 tariff rates...
...80th Congress will re-examine the reciprocal trade program created by Cordell Hull; Nebraska's high-tariff Senator Hugh Butler has written Assistant Secretary of State Clayton asking him to postpone trade negotiations with 18 nations. Republican Congressmen would like to scrutinize some 3,000 pending trade agreement items before any agreements are made under the blanket authority delegated by Democratic Congresses to the President...