Extension of Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act: Hearings Before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, Seventy-sixth Congress, Third Session, on H.J. Res. 407, a Joint Resolution to Extend the Authority of the President Under Section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as AmendedU.S. Government Printing Office, 1940 - Reciprocity (Commerce) |
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Page 1392 - For the purpose of expanding foreign markets for the products of the United States (as a means of assisting in the present emergency in restoring the American standard of living, in overcoming domestic unemployment and the present economic depression, in increasing the purchasing power of the American public...
Page 1392 - States in accordance with the characteristics and needs of various branches of American production so that foreign markets will be made available to those branches of American production which require and are capable of developing such outlets by affording corresponding market opportunities for foreign products in the United States...
Page 1158 - A system which provides a mutual exchange of commodities is manifestly essential to the continued and healthful growth of our export trade. We must not repose in fancied security that we can forever sell everything and buy little or nothing. If such a thing were possible, it would not be best for us or for those with whom we deaL We should take from our customers such of their products as we can use without harm to our industries and labor.
Page 1157 - Our capacity to produce has developed so enormously and our products have so multiplied that the problem of more markets requires our urgent and immediate attention.
Page 1157 - The period of exclusiveness is past. The expansion of our trade and commerce is the pressing problem. Commercial wars are unprofitable. A policy of good will and friendly trade relations will prevent reprisals. Reciprocity treaties are in harmony with the spirit of the times ; measures of retaliation are not.
Page 1079 - (a) Whenever the Secretary of Agriculture has reason to believe that any article or articles are being or are practically certain to be Imported Into the United States under such conditions and In such quantities as to render or tend to render Ineffective, or materially Interfere with...
Page 1623 - Woven fabrics, such as are commonly used for paddings or interlinings in clothing, composed wholly or in chief value of flax, or hemp, or of which these substances or either of them is the component material of chief value...
Page 1428 - To establish and maintain such balance between the production and consumption of agricultural commodities, and such marketing conditions therefor, as will reestablish prices to farmers at a level that will give agricultural commodities a purchasing power with respect to articles that farmers buy, equivalent to the purchasing power of agricultural commodities in the base period.
Page 1593 - Boots, shoes, or other footwear (including athletic or sporting boots and shoes), made wholly or in chief value of leather, not specially provided for...
Page 1368 - The proclaimed duties and other import restrictions shall apply to articles the growth, produce, or manufacture of all foreign countries, whether imported directly, or indirectly: Provided, That the President may suspend the application to articles the growth, produce, or manufacture of any country because of its discriminatory treatment of American commerce...