The Return to Protection: Being a Re-statement of the Case for Free TradeMacmillan, 1906 - 297 страница |
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... fact , the details on which everything depends have been filled in - I shall believe that Free Trade is not only the " economist's policy " but that of the British statesman . There are only two things I should like to add . The one is ...
... fact , the details on which everything depends have been filled in - I shall believe that Free Trade is not only the " economist's policy " but that of the British statesman . There are only two things I should like to add . The one is ...
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... facts . But , although proud to be one of the fourteen , I may claim exemption from the re- proach of knowing nothing practically about business . I was a Free Trade manufacturer in this country , and a Protected manufacturer in the ...
... facts . But , although proud to be one of the fourteen , I may claim exemption from the re- proach of knowing nothing practically about business . I was a Free Trade manufacturer in this country , and a Protected manufacturer in the ...
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... fact that it is perhaps only one - tenth or one - eighth of our total trade . If the United States were to shut herself up inside a prohibitive wall of tariffs , she would still be almost self - sufficient.1 But we lie between 50 and 60 ...
... fact that it is perhaps only one - tenth or one - eighth of our total trade . If the United States were to shut herself up inside a prohibitive wall of tariffs , she would still be almost self - sufficient.1 But we lie between 50 and 60 ...
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... fact that , according to the last statistics , Spain is the only country whose exports and imports do balance each other . Germany has a balance of Imports over Exports of some £ 57 millions ; France , some £ 23 millions ; Holland ...
... fact that , according to the last statistics , Spain is the only country whose exports and imports do balance each other . Germany has a balance of Imports over Exports of some £ 57 millions ; France , some £ 23 millions ; Holland ...
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... fact that there are very large classes in this country who perform services for foreigners which have no embodiment in material goods . If one considers what is involved in the statement that London is the clearing house of the world ...
... fact that there are very large classes in this country who perform services for foreigners which have no embodiment in material goods . If one considers what is involved in the statement that London is the clearing house of the world ...
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Страница 60 - A protecting duty, continued for a reasonable time, will sometimes be the least inconvenient mode in which the nation can tax itself for the support of such an experiment. But the protection should be confined to cases in which there is good ground of assurance that the industry which it fosters will after a time be able to dispense with it...
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Страница 18 - The values of the Imports represent the cost, insurance, and freight ; or, when goods are consigned for sale, the latest sale value oj t>uch (foods. The values of the. Exports represent the cost and the charges of delivering the goods on board the Ship, and are known as the " free on board
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Страница 77 - They do not make the receipt of revenue the main consideration, but allow that primary object of fiscal regulations to be thwarted by an attempt to protect a great variety of particular interests, at the expense of the revenue, and of the commercial intercourse with other countries. Whilst the Tariff has been made subordinate to many small producing interests at home, by the sacrifice of Revenue in order to support...