It is true that trade tariffs have fallen in the US over the past 50 or 60 years.
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De Gucht said the deal would center on dismantling any remaining trade tariffs while tackling regulatory and certification barriers.
But FDR worsened the financial collapse he inherited from Hoover by raising taxes, pursuing a tight money policy and failing to rescind the Smoot-Hawley trade tariffs.
Most trade tariffs between the two partners will be removed.
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Mr Bush's trade supremo, Robert Zoellick, and the commerce secretary, Don Evans, presented the new plan as the logical culmination of the step-by-step reduction of trade tariffs that has taken place since the end of the second world war.
While there will be a lot of emphasis on Libya, also look for discussions on trade and tariffs, offshore accounts and foreign tax credits for corporations and individuals.
To prevent a repeat of 1930s beggar-thy-neighbor protectionism, governments yielded significant powers over trade policy to supranational bodies such at the World Trade Organization (previously the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) and the European Union.
Ban said countries must also expand microcredit to small farmers, minimize trade barriers and tariffs, and boost investment in agriculture.
The agreement will remove almost all trade barriers and tariffs both in products and services, including in the h highly protected agricultural sector.
Mr Brown has told delegates that action on trade barriers, tariffs and subsidies would benefit not only developing countries, but the entire world economy.
Concessions (that is, permission to retain trade barriers) were sought and granted in successive negotiating rounds of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
In this past half-century that shipping container has reduced the costs of trade enormously: so whatever had happened to tariffs we would have expected trade barriers to fall and trade itself to rise.
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The Clinton boom was delayed until his second term when barriers to international and domestic trade were lowered by the reduction of tariffs under the North American Free Trade Act, welfare reform, and a cut in the capital gains tax rate.
This means entering trade deals and cutting tariffs so we are not at a competitive disadvantage.
Gladstone announced treaties that further reduced tariffs affecting trade with Austria, Belgium and the German states.
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However, there are those, I know, who think that tariffs, trade barriers, import restrictions, are very important policy tools.
Absolutely no one thinks there should be tariffs, trade barriers, down the middle of that town now, do they?
But this is much less to do with the reduction in tariffs and trade laws than is generally thought.
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And 49% of the public think tariffs and trade restrictions are necessary, down only slightly from 57% in 1978.
That means that all trade rules, all tariffs, are now set in Brussels.
Once shuttered off by tariffs and trade controls, Mexico has opened up to become a place where the world does business.
Russia will have until June 15 of next year to ratify its accession package and immediately move to lower tariffs on trade.
Since then, trade liberalisation has reduced tariffs on industrial products dramatically, spurring export growth and helping countries like Japan and Korea become industrial giants.
He was involved in the setting up of the International Monetary Fund and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, two great mechanisms of development.
If not, would the United States support a bid by the Baltic states to obtain observer status at the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)?
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It was embodied in organizations such as the United Nations and the International Monetary Fund and in treaties such as the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which makes no mention of tobacco, states that free trade should not interfere with a country's right to protect public health.
The Center for Security Policy noted today that the United States has officially dropped its major precondition concerning Soviet observer status in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
Repudiation of the Bush Administration's recent concession to Moscow whereby the Soviet Union can obtain observer status in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) even before the Kremlin adopts price reform and other market practices needed to make its economy more compatible with the GATT system.
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