Word: tariffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Treasury Department ordered all imports from Czecho-Slovakia treated at once as imports from Germany, thus depriving them of tariff concessions formerly en joyed under the CzechoSlovak trade treaty...
...Attorney General ruled that it would be legal to apply a 25% penalty tariff on all dutiable German imports, except those proved unsubsidized by the Reich, before releasing them from customs. The Treasury announced such penalties would become effective April 22 and would be adjusted after release to equal the subsidy...
...once they did. Like the French they recalled their Ambassador "for a report." Like the U. S., they refused to recognize the seizure and thus locked up an estimated $60,000,000 worth of Czech funds in London. The U. S., in addition, set up a 25% higher tariff wall against the products of Greater Germany (see p.11...
...field of broadcasting technique three subjects have been chosen for experimentation: dramatization of democracy on the air; survey programs of Non England regional problems such as tariff; and the effect of propaganda on different audiences...
...reads Paragraph 1,807 of U. S. Public Law No. 361, the Tariff Act of 1930. Its legalistic loophole: the word "original." Last week it appeared that Manhattan customs officials had squeezed certain of the grey-and-chalk Paris street scenes of Maurice Utrillo through the loophole, ruling that they were copies of postcards, therefore commercial rather than original art, therefore dutiable at 15% of the price they fetched in France. Duty was applied specifically on one importation of Manhattan's Perls (pronounced perils) Galleries, Rue Saint-Vincent a Montmartre; and on a score imported by the Valentine Galleries...