To refine your results, add quotations around a phrase or use AND, NOT, OR between keywords. You can also filter results after clicking the search icon by selecting any of the categories listed in the "Filter By" section below. Please note that available filters are based on your search results. To learn more about search, visit Search Help.

Showing 21-30 of 31 records

Radio Address to the Nation on Economic Growth and Free and Fair Trade

… Mulroney. This agreement between the world's two greatest trading partners will eliminate tariff barriers between the United States and Canada by the year 1999 and establish the largest …

Learn More

Remarks Following Discussions With President Joaquin Balaguer Ricardo of the Dominican Republic

… -- which we have now started exporting to the United States , thanks to the lowering of tariff barriers, with once again, the consequence of lowering unemployment. There are problems …

Learn More

Remarks to Reynolds Metals Company Employees in Richmond, Virginia

… system and helped send America into the decline of the Great Depression -- the Smoot-Hawley tariff. Well, both of them felt that a bit of demagoging about trade was good politics. It … production, and communication, not mercantilist national economics shrinking behind tariff barriers. And that's why we've pushed for a new GATT round, which has now been launched to …

Learn More

Public Papers of Ronald Reagan November 1988

… of Conduct November 19, 1988 Proclamation 5911 -- To Implement Changes to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States Radio Address to the Nation on the Celebration of …

Learn More

Remarks at the Welcoming Ceremony for Prime Minister Brian Mulroney of Canada

… both sides of the border have worked for: an agreement created to drastically reduce trade and tariff barriers between our two great nations. We shall show by deed and dedication, after the …

Learn More

Message to the Congress Transmitting the Annual Report on the State of Small Business

… approval of the agreement with Canada and success in other negotiations will reduce tariff and other barriers to American products and expand opportunities for our service and …

Learn More

Remarks at a Republican Campaign Rally in Bowling Green, Ohio

… was the Republican Party then that believed in protectionism and foisted off the Smoot-Hawley tariff that made the Depression so great. But Roosevelt's platform that he ran on in '32 was to …

Learn More

Remarks at the Annual Meeting of the Atlantic Council

… rules for trade in intellectual property, investment, services, and the lowering of tariff and nontariff trade barriers. Those talks were scheduled to go for 4 years. They are now …

Learn More

Written Responses to Questions Submitted by Southeast Asian News Organizations

… it is important that all our major trading partners take immediate action to further reduce tariff and nontariff barriers. They also should join us in making every effort to ensure the …

Learn More

Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With Students at Suitland High School in Suitland, Maryland

… made in this country and by this country. One, we introduced a thing called the Smoot-Hawley tariff, which made it virtually impossible for anyone to sell anything in America, and that …

Learn More

Ask an Archivist

Need assistance with anything further? Please contact the Reagan Library archives staff.