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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 …

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Remarks to Community Leaders in Madrid, Spain

… done so much evil. Their agreement, called the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, knocked tariff barriers down to their lowest level in modern history and contributed to an unrivaled …

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Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session During a United States Chamber of Commerce Teleconference

… legislation which you mentioned. Quotas on Japanese cars and European steel and the recent tariff decision on imported motorcycles would seem to contradict your administration's commitment …

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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 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 …

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