Word: trading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tariff schedules. There should be some way of correcting specific inequalities during such intervals. If there is any merit in the idea of a flexible tariff, it is too much to hope that an experimental measure devised in a time of abnormal flux and instability in international trade conditions may be rewritten to meet obvious difficulties in practical administration...
...Should any of the high contracting parties break or disregard its covenants ... it shall thereby ipso facto be deemed to have committed an act of war against all the other members of the League which hereby undertake immediately to subject it to the severance of all trade or financial relations, the prohibition of all intercourse between their nationals and the nationals of the covenant-breaking State, and the prevention of all financial, commercial or personal intercourse between the nations of the covenant-breaking and the nationals of any other State, whether a member of the League or not. It shall...
...British iron and steel industry is at present very much a child of misfortune. Everyone's hand is against it except Premier Baldwin's-himself an important steel master-yet the Premier seems powerless to avert depression from his own trade...
Thirdly, despite Premier Baldwin, the British Government refuses to protect home steelmakers by a tariff. Steel is considered a basic material, and must be had cheap. British steel costs about $10 per ton more than foreign steel. England, true to her free-trade principles, believes in buying the foreign steel when it is cheaper and letting her home manufacturers of steel go hang...
...high accomplishment. But it abounds in jargon . . . consecrated phrases and sentences which mean nothing but occupy the time while the House is emptying or filling. . . . 'Mr. Speaker, Sir, the honourable member who has just sat down has charged my Right Honourable friend, the President of the Board of Trade, with having misrepresented the speech which the honourable and learned gentleman, the member for Colne, made earlier in debate. Sir, as I shall presently prove, the honourable member himself is guilty of misrepresenting the .speech of my Right Honourable friend, the President of the Board of Trade. For what...