Extension of Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act: Hearings Before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, 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 Amended |
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... dollars to 1.6 billions . This loss of more than 3.5 billion dollars worth of export business spelled havoc and tragedy throughout the land . Of itself , it would have been enough to throw out of gear the whole ma- chinery of our ...
... dollars to 1.6 billions . This loss of more than 3.5 billion dollars worth of export business spelled havoc and tragedy throughout the land . Of itself , it would have been enough to throw out of gear the whole ma- chinery of our ...
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... dollars of finished manufactures , and these exports went down to little or nothing during the years from 1929 to 1933. Then they began gradually to rise , and I will be glad to insert in the record the exact figures . ( The information ...
... dollars of finished manufactures , and these exports went down to little or nothing during the years from 1929 to 1933. Then they began gradually to rise , and I will be glad to insert in the record the exact figures . ( The information ...
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... dollars . That enables your fish people who , by the way , have increased their production from 13 or 14 million dollars up to 20 million , perhaps that enables them to produce immeasurably more and to get good prices for it . This is ...
... dollars . That enables your fish people who , by the way , have increased their production from 13 or 14 million dollars up to 20 million , perhaps that enables them to produce immeasurably more and to get good prices for it . This is ...
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... dollars just to pay for our exports . We have shut that off , as you know , and that is a tremendous factor in the situation . Senator CLARK . Mr. Secretary , it is also true , is it not , that in 1932 under the Smoot - Hawley tariff ...
... dollars just to pay for our exports . We have shut that off , as you know , and that is a tremendous factor in the situation . Senator CLARK . Mr. Secretary , it is also true , is it not , that in 1932 under the Smoot - Hawley tariff ...
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... dollars ] United States total trade Trade with United Kingdom , France , and Trade with the United Kingdom Trade with Trade with France Canada Canada Ex- Im- Ex- Im- ports ports ports ports Ex- ports Im- ports Ex- Im- Ex- Im- ports ...
... dollars ] United States total trade Trade with United Kingdom , France , and Trade with the United Kingdom Trade with Trade with France Canada Canada Ex- Im- Ex- Im- ports ports ports ports Ex- ports Im- ports Ex- Im- Ex- Im- ports ...
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Page 740 - President by an exertion of legislative power, but with such an authority plus the very delicate, plenary and exclusive power of the President as the sole organ of the federal government in the field of international relations — a power which does not require as a basis for its exercise an act of Congress, but which, of course, like every other governmental power, must be exercised in subordination to the applicable provisions of the Constitution.
Page 204 - 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 brandies of American agriculture, industry, mining, and commerce...
Page 728 - An act to interdict the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies, and for other purposes," that "in case either France or Great Britain shall so revoke or modify her edicts as that they shall cease to violate the neutral commerce of the United States...
Page 697 - ... molasses, coffee, tea, and hides into the United States he may deem to be reciprocally unequal and unreasonable, he shall have the power and it shall be his duty to suspend, by proclamation to that effect, the provisions of this act relating to the free introduction of such sugar, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides, the production of such country, for such time as he shall deem just, and in such case and during such suspension duties shall be levied, collected, and paid upon sugar, molasses, coffee,...
Page 706 - It results that the investment of the federal government with the powers of external sovereignty did not depend upon the affirmative grants of the Constitution. The powers to declare and wage war, to conclude peace, to make treaties, to maintain diplomatic relations with other sovereignties, if they had never been mentioned in the Constitution, would have vested in the federal government as necessary...
Page 700 - ... imposes duties or other exactions upon the agricultural or other products of the United States, which in view of the free introduction of such sugar, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides into the United States he may deem to be reciprocally unequal and unreasonable...
Page 191 - That Congress cannot delegate legislative power to the President is a principle universally recognized as vital to the integrity and maintenance of the system of government ordained by the Constitution. The act of October 1, 1890, in the particular under consideration, is not inconsistent with that principle. It does not, in any real sense, invest the President with the power of legislation.
Page 728 - States, and for introducing among them the habits and arts of civilization, the president of the United States shall be, and he is hereby authorized...
Page 705 - The President was not required to ascertain and proclaim the conditions prevailing in the industry which made the prohibition necessary. The Congress left the matter to the President without standard or rule, to be dealt with as he pleased. The effort by ingenious and diligent construction to supply a criterion still permits such a breadth of authorized action as essentially to commit to the President the functions of a legislature rather than those of an executive or administrative officer executing...
Page 199 - The determination which we are called to make, therefore, is whether the Joint Resolution, as applied to that situation, is vulnerable to attack under the rule that forbids a delegation of the law-making power.