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...tariff is reported to be $3.00 per couple and $2.00 stag, and it is the committee's hope that the number of couples will be limited...
...have been maintained on Irish soil. 2) The six-year-old dispute over land annuities (guaranteed absentee Irish landlords by Britain after their estates were expropriated) is to be settled by the lump payment to Britain of $50,000,000. 3) The two nations agree to raze their retaliatory tariff walls built up since the land annuities squabble began in 1932. The pact will go into effect as soon as it is ratified by both Parliaments, will run for three years...
...bulk of Eire's farming population the most important provision was the tearing down of tariff walls. When the retaliatory tariffs were instituted in 1932, Irish farmers lost their English markets, Anglo-Irish trade tumbled from $400,000,000 a year to only $210,000,000 in 1937. Last week's treaty practically brings Eire into the British Empire's Ottawa tariff group, provides that all Irish goods enter Britain duty-free while only certain British goods have the same privilege in Eire. The only ones who had no reason to acclaim this re-establishment of virtual...
...protect home industry against cheap Italian tombstones. Parliament in 1932 placed a duty of 33⅓% on imports of stone and wood carving. That this tariff effectually kept foreign sculpture out of England, even for exhibition purposes, was something it took Parliament six years to discover and, last January, to amend. First to take advantage of the amendment was small, smart, grey-haired Peggy Guggenheim, daughter of the late copper Tycoon Benjamin Guggenheim and founder of a new London gallery cutely called "Guggenheim Jeune." For Guggenheim Jeune Director Peggy this month planned a knock-out exhibition of sculpture by Abstractionists...
Current state of the Philippines, as defined in the 1934 McDuffie-Tydings Act, calls for complete independence on July 4, 1946. Preceding independence, Philippine trade preferences with the U. S.- whereby sub-quota exports of major Philippine products are 100% tariff-exempt- would be reduced by annual steps, so that by 1946 Philippine products would pay the same tariffs as any other foreign nation...