Extension of Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act: Extract from Hearings Before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Eighty-first Congress, First Session, on H.R. 1211, an Act to Extend the Authority of the President Under Section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as Amended, and for Other Purposes, Statement of Richard H. Anthony, Secretary, American Tariff League, February 21, 1949, Volume 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1949 - 18 pages |
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... Swiss jeweled watch manufacturing industries .. Communication from , regarding list of individuals going to Annecy- .. Explanation of proposed amendment to section 350 ( b ) of the Tariff Act designed to reduce Cuban preference ...
... Swiss jeweled watch manufacturing industries .. Communication from , regarding list of individuals going to Annecy- .. Explanation of proposed amendment to section 350 ( b ) of the Tariff Act designed to reduce Cuban preference ...
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... Swiss products as well as Egyptian import quotas for certain Swiss products previously excluded as being nonessential . Egypt - United Kingdom Effective through 1948. ( New agreement now being negotiated ) . $ 25,000,000 in dollars ...
... Swiss products as well as Egyptian import quotas for certain Swiss products previously excluded as being nonessential . Egypt - United Kingdom Effective through 1948. ( New agreement now being negotiated ) . $ 25,000,000 in dollars ...
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... Swiss Government with a view to limiting shipments of Swiss watches to the United States . In April 1946 , an exchange of memoranda took place between the two Governments under which the Swiss agreed to limit shipments during the ...
... Swiss Government with a view to limiting shipments of Swiss watches to the United States . In April 1946 , an exchange of memoranda took place between the two Governments under which the Swiss agreed to limit shipments during the ...
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... Swiss watches , I do feel that such importations have been a contributing factor . As in the case of its two competitors , through the war period its facilities were completely turned over to the making of precision instruments for the ...
... Swiss watches , I do feel that such importations have been a contributing factor . As in the case of its two competitors , through the war period its facilities were completely turned over to the making of precision instruments for the ...
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... Swiss have become very adept in the manufacture of watch- making machines . They have an embargo in Switzerland which abso- lutely prohibits the sale of those machines to manufacturers in the United States . Mr. Shennan , testifying ...
... Swiss have become very adept in the manufacture of watch- making machines . They have an embargo in Switzerland which abso- lutely prohibits the sale of those machines to manufacturers in the United States . Mr. Shennan , testifying ...
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Page 121 - ... in such increased quantities and under such conditions as to cause or threaten serious injury to domestic producers in that territory of like or directly competitive products, the contracting party shall be free, in respect of such product, and to the extent and for such time as may be necessary to prevent or remedy such injury, to suspend the obligation in whole or in part or to withdraw or modify the concession.
Page 123 - Subject to the requirement that such measures are not applied in a manner which would constitute a means of arbitrary or unjustifiable discrimination between countries where the same conditions prevail, or a disguised restriction on international trade...
Page 290 - 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, and in establishing and maintaining a better relationship among various branches of American agriculture, industry, mining, and commerce...
Page 61 - The contracting parties recognize that internal taxes and other internal charges, and laws, regulations and requirements affecting the internal sale, offering for sale, purchase, transportation, distribution or use of products, and internal quantitative regulations requiring the mixture, processing or use of products in specified amounts or proportions, should not be applied to imported or domestic products so as to afford protection to domestic production.
Page 641 - American public, and in establishing and maintaining a better relationship among various branches of American agriculture, industry, mining, and commerce) by regulating the admission of foreign goods into the United States in accordance with the characteristics and needs of various branches of American production...
Page 119 - Final Act adopted at the conclusion of the Second Session of the Preparatory Committee of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Employment which has not signed it on this day.
Page 123 - Agreement shall be construed to prevent the adoption or enforcement by any contracting party of measures: [....] (b) necessary to protect human, animal or plant life or health; [....] (g) relating to the conservation of exhaustible natural resources if such measures are made effective in conjunction with restrictions on domestic production or consumption.
Page 291 - No proclamation shall be made increasing or decreasing by more than 50 per centum any existing rate of duty or transferring any article between the dutiable and free lists.
Page 60 - ... internal taxes or other internal charges of any kind in excess of those applied, directly or indirectly, to like domestic products. Moreover, no contracting party shall otherwise apply internal taxes or other internal charges to imported or domestic products in a manner contrary to the principles set forth in paragraph 1.
Page 78 - No prohibitions or restrictions, other than duties, taxes, or other charges, whether made effective through quotas, import or export licences, or other measures, shall be instituted or maintained by any contracting party on the importation of any product of the territory of any other contracting party...