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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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Remarks at a Meeting With Members of the Advisory Committee for Trade Negotiations

… of our trade policy. Reporter. Mr. President, are you considering rescinding your trade tariff restrictions against the Japanese? Are you impressed by what they've done? You call for …

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Message to the Congress on Import Relief for the Wood Shakes and Shingles Industry

… profits, and employment. I have decided to modify the ITC remedy by providing for a declining tariff over the period of relief, rather than a constant 35 percent duty as recommended by the …

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Remarks at a Senate Campaign Fundraising Luncheon for Representative W. Henson Moore in New Orleans, Louisiana

… a change. When the Great Depression was spread all over the world by the Smoot-Hawley tariff, that protectionist measure -- that was a Republican bill. The Republicans, then, were the party of high tariff. The Democrats were the party of low tariff and nonprotectionism . And today that has turned around. So, in reality, anyone who …

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Proclamation 5758 -- Amending the Generalized System of Preferences

… 2461 and 2462(c)). 3. Section 604 of the Trade Act authorizes the President to embody in the Tariff Schedules of the United States (TSUS) (19 U.S.C. 1202) the substance of the relevant …

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Statement by Assistant to the President for Press Relations Fitzwater on Specialty Steel Import Relief

… arrangements negotiated under the President's national steel program. Therefore, a modest tariff starting at 3 percent and declining to 1 percent of the value, will be imposed on …

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Proclamation 5595 -- Imposition of Temporary Surcharge on Imports of Certain Softwood Lumber Products From Canada

… 2411(a), (b), (d)(1); (2483), do proclaim that: 1. Subpart B of part 1 of Schedule 2 of the Tariff Schedules of the United States is modified, with respect to products of Canada imported …

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Radio Address to the Nation on International Trade, June 28, 1986 (06/28/1986)

… after the stock market crash of 1929, the Congress passed something called the Smoot-Hawley tariff. Many economists believe it was one of the worst blows ever to our economy. By crippling …

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Proclamation 5458 -- To Designate Aruba as a Beneficiary Country for Purposes of the Generalized System of Preferences and the Caribbean Basin Recovery Act

… 604 of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2483) confers authority upon the President to embody in the Tariff Schedules of the United States (TSUS) the substance of the relevant provisions of that …

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Executive Order 12661 -- Implementing the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 and Related International Trade Matter

… and Competitiveness Act of 1988 (P.L. 100 - 418, 102 Stat. 1107) (``Omnibus Trade Act''), the Tariff Act of 1930 (Chapter 497, 46 Stat. 590, June 17, 1930), as amended (``Tariff Act''), the National Defense Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1989 (P.L. 100 - 456, 102 … the direction of the President, it is hereby ordered as follows: Part I -- Trade, Customs, and Tariff Laws Section 1 - 101. Accession of State Trading Regimes to the General Agreement on …

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