Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other, will bring about obstructions to the flow of goods between Europe and this country. To this fear, the reply is that, during the post-war decade, a period marked by unusual activity in readjustments of this sort throughout the world, the foreign commerce of nearly every major trading nation, both exports and imports, has been steadily increasing. Last year for instance, we shipped our goods abroad in larger quantities than ever before. We also bought in foreign markets more heavily than in any preceding year in our history. For the fourth time in succession our total trade with foreign...
Attention to Trade Barriers...
True, the deliberations of the International Economic Conference at Geneva in 1927 were focused largely upon this question of trade barriers and numerous obstacles (including a good many quite apart from tariff levels) were revealed. But one wonders sometimes whether their real significance is not at times exaggerated, whether the amazing adjustability or fluidity of modern commerce does not in large part circumvent such barriers within a short time after their establishment...
...there is another phase to this question which reaches beyond Europe herself and extends to her colonies, dependencies and other outlying provinces. The trade of these lands is European since the economic wealth of the regions in question and its distribution are controlled from that continent. We import essential raw materials for our industries from these European dependencies mostly without tariff charges...
...suggested with the avowed purpose of opposing this country from an economic standpoint." Although there would in all probability be no hostility to the United States in the formation of such a league, were it practicable, such hostility would be very likely to develop, owing to the natural trade competition that would spring...