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...realized many of its aims. In international affairs it is manifest in the breakdown of export-industrialism and free trade. Not only is this true in Germany where the ultimate solution was war for living room, but also in England where the Ottawa Agreements and the whole postwar tariff system signified a desperate resort to self-sufficiency...
...items imported by the U.S. on which concessions were granted, most important for Argentina were flaxseed, canned corned beef (fresh beef is still excluded), cattle hides and a new set of products formerly imported from Europe (wines, cheeses, anchovies, etc.). The 50% cut on canned-beef tariff (from 6? to 3? per Ib.) aroused the usual speaking-for-the-record opposition by beef-State Congressmen, but it meant little. Said J. Taylor, president of the Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association...
...there is no basis for sustaining the contention that there has been monopolization by Alcoa." Systematically, he had divided the case into 36 sections, each of which must be ruled on before he can make the final decision: whether to break Alcoa up. Three branches of law are involved: tariff law, patent law, the Sherman Act. The Government's charges were in twelve groups, for different branches of the industry: 1) bauxite; 2) water power; 3) alumina; 4) virgin aluminum, pig and ingot; 5) castings; 6) cooking utensils; 7) pistons; 8) extrusions and structural shapes; 9) foil; 10) miscellaneous...
...quota of thought and discussion, perhaps because it is political dynamite. A hotbed of isolationism, this section is not likely to support enthusiastically a full-scale war; yet when the war is over its people will presumably be asked to submit to a trade-pact tariff-lowering policy, which they feel is a sock at their bread-basket. And what steps are being taken against the post-war flames of hate which make any sane treatment of a defeated enemy impossible? Lastly, is there any hope that Congress will knife through political morass and public let-George-do-it-iveness...
...various questions" mentioned by Mexico's President might include: 1) further U.S. purchases of Mexican silver, to help stabilize the peso; 2) U.S. tariff concessions on Mexican products, to help redress Mexico's unfavorable trade balance ; 3) a trade agreement to assure Mexico a supply of U.S. machinery and raw materials* 4) settlement of such tiny but touchy international issues as the boundary dispute between Mexico and the U.S. over the Chamizal territory (about one square mile) on the Texas border...