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Telephone Interview With Lockwood R. Doty of Washington Broadcast News, Inc.

… the mistaken belief that it might help somehow in the Depression. It was then the Smoot-Hawley tariff bill, and all it did was expand the Depression more worldwide than it was and make it …

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Proclamation 4887 -- Import Fees on Certain Sugars, Sirups and Molasses

… derived from sugarcane or sugar beets, classified under items 155.20 and 155.30, of the Tariff Schedules of the United States (TSUS) (19 U.S.C. 1202), are being, or are practically … of Title 3 of the United States Code, do hereby proclaim that Part 3 of the Appendix to the Tariff Schedules of the United States is amended as follows: 1. Headnote 4 is continued in effect …

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Public Papers of Ronald Reagan March 1983

… California March 4, 1983 Nominations & Appointments Statement on the Most-Favored-Nation Tariff Status for Romania Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With Members of the …

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Remarks at the Presentation Ceremony for the President's "E'' and "E Star'' Awards

… It developed a very effective export marketing program, overcoming many problems such as tariff barriers and foreign competition in exporting its diagnostic products used in clinical and …

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Proclamation 5074 -- Temporary Duty Increases and Quantitative Limitations on the Importation Into the United States of Certain Stainless Steel and Alloy Tool Steel

… 607.88, 607.90, 608.26, 608.29, 608.34, 608.43, 608.49, 608.57, 608.64, and 609.45 of the Tariff Schedules of the United States (TSUS) (19 U.S.C. 1202), are being imported into the United …

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Proclamations, May 17, 1985 (05/17/1985)

… the United States of America, do hereby proclaim as follows: A. Part 3 of the Appendix to the Tariff Schedules of the United States is amended by: (1) inserting in the superior heading for …

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Remarks at a White House Ceremony Marking the Implementation of the Caribbean Basin Initiative

… balance-of-payment support, the elimination for 12 years of nearly all of the remaining tariff barriers on Caribbean Basin country exports to the United States, and tax incentives to …

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Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With Members of the Massachusetts High Technology Council in Bedford

… to get rid of those restrictive regulations that they have. I should think, on the tariff basis, we should have learned our lesson in the Great Depression and the part that was played in that by the Smoot-Hawley tariff bills. So, anything that you can do to be supportive of us in resisting, which we're going …

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Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With Regional Editors and Broadcasters

… the Great Depression, which I do. I was looking for my first job in 1932. The Smoot-Hawley tariff was passed, a great protectionist measure. It spread the Depression worldwide; it … More than a thousand economists appealed to Herbert Hoover to veto the Smoot-Hawley tariff. But there was a classic example of protectionism, overall protectionism, and its result. …

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Remarks at the Ford Claycomo Assembly Plant in Kansas City, Missouri

… due to what somebody thought might be an answer to our Depression problems, the Smoot-Hawley tariff bill, which literally destroyed free trade worldwide and perpetuated the Depression at …

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