Tariff Readjustment--1929: Hearings Before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, Seventieth Congress, Second Session...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1929 - Tariff |
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Page 158 - Congress by this act intended, whenever the President, upon investigation of the differences in costs of production of articles wholly or in part the growth or product of the United States and of like or similar articles wholly or in part the growth or product of competing foreign countries...
Page 24 - The Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce of the United States...
Page 401 - Chalk (not medicinal nor prepared for toilet purposes) when ground, precipitated naturally or artificially, or otherwise prepared, whether in the form of cubes, blocks, sticks or disks, or otherwise, including tailors', billiard, red, or French chalk, one cent per pound. Manufactures of chalk not specially provided for in this Act, twentyfive per centum ad valorem.
Page 620 - Where two or more products result from the manipulation of imported merchandise, the drawback shall be distributed to the several products in accordance with their relative values at the time of separation.
Page 614 - Islands, upon articles, goods, wares, or merchandise going into the Philippine Islands from the United States, a tax equal to the internalrevenue tax imposed in the Philippine Islands upon the like articles, goods, wares, or merchandise of Philippine...
Page 612 - That there shall be levied, collected, and paid upon all articles coming Into the United States from the Philippine Islands the rates of duty which are required to be levied, collected, and paid upon like articles imported from foreign countries...
Page 295 - ... shall be computed on the weight which the article would have if it were diluted to the standard strength, but in no case shall any such articles of whatever strength...
Page 721 - Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production ; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
Page 159 - Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, I appear on behalf of the...
Page 135 - ... at which such article is freely offered for sale to all purchasers in the principal market of the United States, in the ordinary course of trade and in the usual wholesale quantities...