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...Slashed the bill's time span from five years to three, and the President's maximum tariff-cutting authority from...
...Provided that the President cannot overrule Tariff Commission recommendations for higher tariffs unless majority votes in both houses of Congress back...
Swinging with accustomed wildness, the Senate Finance Committee last week assaulted one of President Eisenhower's three legislative "imperatives": the five-year reciprocal trade bill that the House had passed by a lopsided majority of 317 to 98 (TIME, June 23). In a surrender to tariff-lobby pressures and isolationist propaganda, the committee...
...Tariffs: since 1934, the U.S. has gradually reduced tariffs, expects to continue; of "about a dozen" tariff increases granted under escape-clause provisions, only one has materially affected Canadian exports...
...Since seaway construction started in 1954, Cook County (Chicago) Congressmen have twice voted unanimously to extend the tariff-chopping Reciprocal Trade Agreements...