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40-654-12019865-022-002-2021.pdf

… it, which will not be achieved by mere liberalisation and unqualified general systems of tariff preferences • . I. 10(26) 24. What ls needed ls a combination of industrial policy, social …

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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 …

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Index of Cabinet Council Meetings

… Credit Policy (CM 113) 12/18/1981 050109; 050110 CCCT Enterprise Zones (CM 42) Japan Non-Tariff Trade Barriers (CM 169) Multifiber Agreement (CM80) 12/18/1981 050119 CCEA Report of the … Agricultural Land Conversion (CM 122) (Polish Food Issues) 12/22/1981 053334 CCCT Japan Non-Tariff Trade Barriers (MacDonald)(CM 169) Multifiber Agreement (Ambassador Brock)(CM 80) … Update (CM 96)(Secretary Baldridge) Trade Relations with Japan (Ambassador Brock)(CM 155) 25% Tariff on Non-Duty Trades (Ambassador Brock) Clean Air Act Amendments (The Vice President) Auto …

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40-219-6927378-010-020-2023.pdf

… to buy food, oil, raw materials, and capital equipment. In the same year, 1958, the U.S. Tariff Commission said: Japan's ability to maintain a viable economy is, of necessity, dependent … than Japan's, cut those logs and process them into plyw~d or paper, Japan levies a high tariff on them. The result? Japanese houses and furniture are more expensive than they need to …

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40-177-68141920-R01A-014-2025.pdf

… policies in response to AID assistance. Poverty-stricken Burkina Faso imposed a 66 percent tariff on importation of animal-drawn plows and a 58 percent tariff on engines used for irrigation pumps. [66] In Zambia, the 1985 crop harvest was endangered …

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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 …

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40-219-6927378-007-004-2023.pdf

… and Guatemala to make exieba;uee-l"llde adjustments and revise the Cemnl American external tariff and other CACJI instruments so as to revitalize the CACM. The United States has encoa:r~!d …

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40-537-12013953-OA17741-005-2025.pdf

… producer prices of export crops in real terms; raised real interest rates; restructured their tariff systems to reduce the bias in effective rates of protection; liberalized interest rate, … dependent on imported inputs and to reinforce the effects of any accompanying import tariff reductions. Third, improvement in the performance of public enterprises is often an …

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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 …

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40-736-R06-012-2025.pdf

… indifference to it. ;~:~~· .. :c;: ltJO•. Tall• the What did we learn from the Smoot-Hawley Tariff? -~.\:. · -~ . .' --~ did we learn about th• danqer1 of eountri•• in variwa part• of th• …

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