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...finest wheat flour" to Switzerland and pocketing the subsidy. When EEC officials finally inspected a shipment, they discovered that the flour actually was a nonsubsidized mixture of cattle feed. Conversely, "cattle feed" imported into the Common Market duty-free often turns out to be a mixture of two high-tariff commodities, wheat flour and sugar...
...forces. Given this analysis, the new industrial struggle with Japan becomes clear. By means of protectionist policies Japan has rebuilt its economy to challenge American markets both domestically and in developing countries. If Japanese militarism widens, problems between these two super-powers are likely to expand beyond the present tariff war to a major clash. Unfortunately Horowitz doesn't deal sufficiently with the substance of this new struggle with Japan...
...Common Market countries have had no end of trouble reaching tariff agreements on such disparate items as German beer, French mayonnaise, and Italian spaghetti. Now a totally unexpected commodity is at issue. In Strasbourg last week, the fledgling European Parliament formally agreed to consider a question raised by a Belgian Socialist Deputy named Ernest Glinne. The Market, Glinne demands, should spell out once and for all "where we stand when the remains of cremated human beings are transported from one member state to another...
GARLAN MORSE: I don't think the nontariff barriers-import quotas, discriminatory taxes and the like-are understood by the public or by industry or even by Government. But these barriers are so important that just to renegotiate the tariff scales back and forth to bring some equilibrium does not solve the problem...
ROBERT INGERSOLL: I would not like to see us get into a position where there would be retaliation against us from other countries. We had such an experience in the early '60s, when the glass and rug industries prevailed upon President Kennedy to raise tariffs because they were being injured. The Common Market did not retaliate in those industries, but it immediately put a 40% tariff on styrene-based plastics. My company happened to have built a plant in Britain, thinking we could ship into the Common Market, and the new tariff just cut us off. Foreign countries will...