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Remarks at a Campaign Rally for Senator James T. Broyhill in Raleigh, North Carolina

… Japan 's tobacco monopoly ended in a great success. Japan announced that it is dropping its tariff on American tobacco products. And that's the way it's going to be: Free trade means fair …

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Remarks at a White House Briefing for Women Entrepreneurs

… trade involves one-fifth of our economy. That's compared to 12 percent when the Smoot-Hawley tariff shut down our international trade and sent us into the Great Depression. None of you here …

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Remarks to Citizens in Concord, New Hampshire

… trade war we fought was back in the 1930's. We brought it on ourselves with the Smoot-Hawley tariff. It was called the Great Depression. I was looking for my first job in that Great …

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Interview With Pat Robertson of the Christian Broadcasting Network

… our time has run out. If the Congress gives you a trade protectionist bill having either a tariff or a surcharge or some other name, will you veto it? The President. I'll have to. That's …

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Written Responses to Questions Submitted by Yomiuri Shimbun of Tokyo, Japan

… market: (1) the expansion of voluntary export restraints on '85 automobiles, (2) reduction of tariff rates on wood products and (3) total liberalization of agricultural products. We would …

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Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With Students of the Control Data Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

… is based on competitive bidding, and under the -- what's called GATT -- this is the general tariff and trade treaties that we have with our trading partners -- we assure them that they will …

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Remarks at the Annual Meeting of the Boards of Governors of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group

… the U.S. commitment to an open world trading system by rejecting protectionist quota and tariff relief for the steel industry. I've decided instead to take vigorous action against unfair …

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Interview With Independent Network Washington Bureau Chiefs

… -- led literally to a worldwide depression. It just isn't the way to go. This Smoot-Hawley tariff was the villain, in that case, that perpetuated and added to the Depression. Q. During the …

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Remarks to the International Forum of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States

… bad for business, and it's bad for America. I'm old enough to remember the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, which helped spread the Depression worldwide, and I'm not about to let that happen. …

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The President's News Conference

… we all recognize is the specter of protectionism -- that vain search for security behind tariff walls and inside closed markets. History has proved again and again the fallacy of that …

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