International Commercial Policies, with Special Reference to the United States: A Text Book

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Macmillan, 1907 - Commercial policy - 288 pages
 

Contents

Proposed American Free Districts
121
Frontier Traffic in the Narrower Sense
122
Mexican Free Zone
123
Treaty Ports
124
Bibliography Suggestive Topics and Questions
125
CHAPTER X
127
Internal Taxes on Imported Merchandise
128
Internal Taxes on Domestic Products destined for Exportation
129
Drawbacks
130
Drawback System in the United States
131
Direct or Open Bounties
132
Indirect or Concealed Export Bounties
134
International SugarBounty Question
136
Free ReImportation of Unaltered Domestic
137
CHAPTER XI
145
Protocol
151
COMMERCIAL TREATIESRECIPROCITY AND THE MOST
161
Fifth Phase of American Reciprocity
165
Unrestricted or European Most Favored
171
CHAPTER XIII
177
I20 Recent Regulations Governing Appointments
185
PUBLIC TRADEPROMOTING INSTITUTIONS Continued
192
United States Department of Commerce
197
CHAPTER XV
206
CHAPTER XVI
216
NAVIGATION POLITICS PAGE 148 General
233
Mare Clausum
234
Freedom of Navigation
235
Navigation Laws
236
English Navigation Policy
237
Navigation Policy of the United States
238
Character of Shipping Subsidies
240
History of Foreign Shipping Subsidies
241
Early American Shipping Subsidy Policy
242
Postal Subsidy Act of 1891
244
Arguments for and against Navigation Laws
247
Bibliography Suggestive Topics and Questions
248
CHAPTER XVIII
251
American Methods of Obtaining Commercial
219
Visible Exports and Imports 225
225
Bureau of Navigation and Shipping Com missioners
252
SteamboatInspection Service
253
Coast and Geodetic Survey
254
Public Health and Marine Hospital Service
256
Navy Department
257
Bibliography Suggestive Topics and Questions
258
General Bibliography
259
Index
273
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Page 158 - ... reprisals, aggression, or hostility of any kind, by the one republic against the other, until the Government of that which deems itself aggrieved shall have maturely considered, in the spirit of peace and good neighborship, whether it would not be better that such difference should be settled by the arbitration of commissioners appointed on each side, or by that of a friendly nation.
Page 100 - ... the actual market value or wholesale price of such merchandise at the time of exportation to the United States, in the principal markets of the country from which the same has been imported...
Page 139 - That in case of residents of the United States returning from abroad, all wearing apparel and other personal effects taken by them out of the United States to foreign countries shall be admitted free of duty, without regard to their value, upon their identity being established, under appropriate rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, but no more than one hundred dollars in value of articles purchased abroad by such residents of the United States shall be admitted...
Page 109 - That whenever any country, dependency, colony, province, or other political subdivision of government, person, partnership, association, cartel, or corporation shall pay or bestow, directly or indirectly, any bounty or grant upon the manufacture or production or export of any article, or merchandise...
Page 132 - That where imported materials on which duties have been paid, are used in the manufacture of articles manufactured or produced in the United States, there shall be allowed on the exportation of such articles a drawback equal in amount to the duties paid on the materials used, less one per centum of such duties...
Page 157 - If unhappily any disagreement should hereafter arise between the Governments of the two republics, whether with respect to the interpretation of any stipulation in this treaty, or with respect to any other particular concerning the political or commercial relations of the two nations...
Page 142 - ... articles of personal adornment, toilet articles, and similar personal effects of persons arriving in the United States; but this exemption shall...
Page 81 - States from any foreign country any obscene book, pamphlet, paper, writing, advertisement, circular, print, picture, drawing, or other representation, figure, or image on or of paper or other material, or any cast, instrument, or other article of an immoral nature, or any drug or medicine, or any article whatever for the prevention of conception or for causing unlawful abortion, or any lottery ticket or any advertisement of any lottery.
Page 132 - That when the articles exported are made in part from domestic materials the imported materials, or the parts of the articles made from such materials, shall so appear in the completed articles that the quantity or measure thereof may be ascertained...
Page 170 - ... engage mutually not to grant any particular favor to other nations, in respect of commerce and navigation, which shall not immediately become common to the other party, who shall enjoy the same freely, if the concession was freely made, or on allowing the same compensation, if the concession was conditional.

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