Kidd on Foreign TradePrentice-Hall, 1921 - 441 pages |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
abroad advertising agencies agent American bank American exporter American manufacturer amount Argentina bill of lading Brazil British Bureau of Foreign cargo carrier catalogues cent Chamber of Commerce Chile coal commission house common carriers competition consular service Consuls corporation cost demand discount Domestic Commerce duty eign English bank Europe exchange export merchant export trade favor Federal Reserve Federal Reserve Act Federal Reserve Board Federal Trade Commission financing Foreign and Domestic foreign buyer foreign countries foreign market foreign trade free port freight Germany Government important industrial interest investment invoice letter of credit loan London ment merchant marine methods nation organization Orleans packing port pounds sterling problem purchase railroad rails rates regarding registry secured seller selling shipment shipper Shipping Board South America steel sterling supply tariff tion tonnage trade-mark treaties United vessels York
Popular passages
Page 169 - Bank may discount notes, drafts, and bills of exchange arising out of actual commercial transactions; that is, notes, drafts, and bills of exchange issued or drawn for agricultural, industrial, or commercial purposes, or the proceeds of which have been used, or are to be used, for such purposes...
Page 228 - An Act to establish a United States Shipping Board for the purpose of encouraging, developing, and creating a naval auxiliary and naval reserve and a merchant marine to meet the requirements of the commerce of the United States with its Territories and possessions and with foreign countries; to regulate carriers by water in the foreign and interstate commerce of the United States; and for other purposes,' " approved July 15, 1918, contains the following provisions: "SEC.
Page 358 - That such association does not, either in the United States or elsewhere, enter into any agreement, understanding or conspiracy, or do any act which artificially or intentionally enhances or depresses prices within the United States of commodities of the class exported by such association, or which substantially lessens competition within the United States or otherwise restrains trade therein.
Page 363 - Department to foster, promote, and develop the foreign and domestic commerce, the mining, manufacturing, shipping, and fishery industries, the labor interests, and the transportation facilities of the United States...
Page 385 - Examiners to formulate rules for and hold examinations of applicants for admission to the consular service. 6. The scope and method of the examinations shall be determined by the Board of Examiners, but among the subjects shall be included at least one modern language other than English; the natural, industrial and commercial resources and the commerce of the United States, especially with reference to the possibilties of increasing and extending the trade of the United States with foreign countries;...
Page 16 - The removal, so far as possible, of all economic barriers and the establishment of an equality of trade conditions among all the nations consenting to the peace and associating themselves for its maintenance.
Page 161 - Any member bank may accept drafts or bills of exchange drawn upon it having not more than three months' sight to run, exclusive of days of grace, drawn under regulations to be prescribed by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System by banks or bankers in foreign countries or dependencies or insular possessions of the United States for the purpose of furnishing dollar exchange as required by the usages of trade in the respective countries, dependencies, or insular possessions.
Page 161 - Sec. 25. Any national banking association possessing a capital and surplus of $1,000,000 or more may file application with the Federal Reserve Board...
Page 107 - ... losses arising from dangers of the sea or other navigable waters, acts of God, or public enemies, or the inherent defect, quality, or vice of the thing carried. or from insufficiency of package, or seizure under legal process, or for loss resulting from any act or omission of the shipper or owner of the goods, his agent or representative or from saving or attempting to save life or property at sea, or from any deviation in rendering such service.
Page 112 - I think it clear that the term "perils of the sea" does not cover every accident or casualty which may happen to the subject-matter of the insurance on the sea. It must be a peril "of the sea. Again, it is well settled that it is not every loss or damage of which the sea is the immediate cause that is covered by these words. They do not protect, for example, against that natural and inevitable action of the winds...