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Executive Order 12662 -- Implementing the United States-Canada Free-Trade Implementation Act

… FTA Implementation Act, in the event that the provisions of subparagraph 516A( g)(7)(B) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, 19 U.S.C. section 1516a(g)(7)(B), take effect, I accept, as a …

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Executive Order 12524 -- Amending the Generalized System of Preferences

… to be least-developed beneficiary developing countries, general headnote 3(c) of the Tariff Schedules of the United States (TSUS) (19 U.S.C. 1202) is modified by adding the following …

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Radio Address to the Nation on Free and Fair Trade

… it caused is deep and searing. And today many economic analysts and historians argue that high tariff legislation passed back in that period called the Smoot-Hawley tariff greatly deepened the depression and prevented economic recovery. You see, at first, when …

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Proclamations, April 15, 1983 (04/15/1983)

… April 15, 1983 (04/15/1983) 04/15/1983 … Proclamation 5050 -- Temporary Duty Increase and Tariff-Rate Quota on the Importation Into the United States of Certain Heavyweight Motorcycles … with total piston displacement over 700 cubic centimeters, provided for in item 692.50 of the Tariff Schedules of the United States (TSUS) (19 U.S.C. 1202), are being imported into the United … 2252(c)), I determined to impose the additional duties recommended by the USITC, but with tariff-rate quotas to assure small volume producers which have not contributed to the threat of …

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Memorandum on the Export of Softwood Lumber Products From Canada

… not being fully imposed, I will take action (including the imposition of an increase in the tariff on softwood lumber imported from Canada ) to offset any shortfall in the full imposition …

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Radio Address to the Nation on the Canadian Elections and Free Trade

… disaster for the working men and women of this country. When Congress passed the Smoot-Hawley tariff in 1930, we were told that it would protect America from foreign competition and save jobs … Delano Roosevelt, who opposed protectionism and called for the repeal of that disastrous tariff. Ever since that time, the American people have stayed true to our heritage by rejecting …

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Nominations, July 22, 1985 (07/22/1985)

… and special assistant to the Chairman of the United States delegation to the Kennedy round of tariff negotiations in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1967 he was a member of the international security …

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Message to the Congress on Acid Imports From China

… paratungstate and tungstic acid, provided for in Items 417.40 and 416.40, respectively, of the Tariff Schedules of the United States. In accordance with section 203 of the Trade Act of 1974 …

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Statement on Signing the United States-Israel Free Trade Area Implementation Act of 1985

… free trade area between our countries. On October 30, 1984, I signed into law the Trade and Tariff Act of 1984 that, among other things, authorized the negotiation of an agreement with …

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Proclamation 5679 -- Specialty Steel Import Relief

… tool steel; and round wire of high-speed tool steel, provided for in specified items of the Tariff Schedules of the United States (TSUS) (19 U.S.C. 1202). By Proclamation 5074 of July 19, … enforce the national policy for the steel industry was provided in Title VIII of the Trade and Tariff Act of 1984 (19 U.S.C. 2253 note). 4. Pursuant to the above authority, the USTR concluded …

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