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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 …

Executive Order 12608 -- Elimination of Unnecessary Executive Orders and Technical Amendments to Others

… certain employees to be given career or career conditional appointments 11377 Providing for Tariff Commission reports regarding the estimated consumption of certain brooms 11911 Providing …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

Proclamation 5164 -- Import Fees on Certain Sugars, Sirups and Molasses

… to me, I find and declare that: (a) Sugars 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 …

Remarks During a Roundtable Discussion With Export Trade Industry Representatives in Tacoma, Washington

… plants and assembly plants -- than there were back in 1980. We're pushing hard for tariff cuts and to lower nontariff trade barriers. And by the way, George, I know, as we've … When there was talk, also, of protectionism and what its faults can be -- that Smoot-Hawley tariff back in the Great Depression when I was looking for my first job, I remember the effect of …

The President's News Conference

… will be a one-way trip to economic disaster. That's the lesson of the Smoot-Hawley tariff in 1930, which helped to trigger a worldwide trade war that spread, deepened, and … to see who lost their job because of protectionism. We do know the history of the Smoot-Hawley tariff and what it did. There were over a thousand economists that sought the President out at … 2 years now, I have been begging our allies and trading partners in the GATT, the general tariff program, to join with us in another round of trade talks to again eliminate whatever …

Remarks to the Annual Meeting of the National Association of Manufacturers

… not seek false security behind restrictive quotas and import duties. Nations that hide behind tariff walls soon fall behind. America's destiny is not to be second or third or fourth in the …

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