TRADE BARRIERS
PAN-AMERICAN NATIONS UNITED STATES REQUEST. MONTEVIDEO, December 12. (Received Dec. 13, at 11.45 p.m.) The United States asked the PanAmerican nations to-day to reduce their tariffs and trade barriers “from the present great heights to moderate and reasonable levels ” by the immediate adoption of a policy of bi-lateral reciprocity and commercial treaties. The secretary of State (Mr Cordell Hull) made recommendations before the special Economic Committee of the Pan-American Conference, urging an understanding with other important. nations to proceed simultaneously in lowering such trade barriers “to a level dictated* by a moderate tariff policy.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22136, 14 December 1933, Page 9
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