The Return to Protection: Being a Re-statement of the Case for Free TradeMacmillan, 1906 - 297 страница |
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... material and for their market . It seems , too , as if we were destined by nature to be ocean carriers . Take one ... Raw Cotton . It is needless to say that we require all these things for immediate consumption and as materials for our ...
... material and for their market . It seems , too , as if we were destined by nature to be ocean carriers . Take one ... Raw Cotton . It is needless to say that we require all these things for immediate consumption and as materials for our ...
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... raw material grows , and where power and coal are abundant . But how are spinning and weaving to arise among a population bred in agriculture , unskilled in machinery , unaccustomed to an indoor life , unless steps are taken to protect ...
... raw material grows , and where power and coal are abundant . But how are spinning and weaving to arise among a population bred in agriculture , unskilled in machinery , unaccustomed to an indoor life , unless steps are taken to protect ...
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... raw material . Next came shipbuilding to take advantage of the steel . Clustered round this are now all manner of subsidiary industries , making machinery and other auxiliaries for shipbuilding and steel - making , and the prosperity of ...
... raw material . Next came shipbuilding to take advantage of the steel . Clustered round this are now all manner of subsidiary industries , making machinery and other auxiliaries for shipbuilding and steel - making , and the prosperity of ...
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... raw material , and fed on abundant food . " This claim for Pro- tection to American industry , founded on the high scale of American remuneration , is a demand for special legislation and in consideration of the possession of special ...
... raw material , and fed on abundant food . " This claim for Pro- tection to American industry , founded on the high scale of American remuneration , is a demand for special legislation and in consideration of the possession of special ...
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... raw materials conflict , not only with agricul- tural and mining industries , but with those who use home - produced raw material . But the attempt to define " raw " material presents endless difficulties . And the importance of cheap raw ...
... raw materials conflict , not only with agricul- tural and mining industries , but with those who use home - produced raw material . But the attempt to define " raw " material presents endless difficulties . And the importance of cheap raw ...
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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
Страница 60 - The superiority of one country over another in a branch of production often arises only from having begun it sooner. There may be no inherent advantage on one part or disadvantage on the other, but only a present superiority of acquired skill and experience.
Страница 76 - The Tariff of the United Kingdom presents neither congruity nor unity of purpose ; no general principles seem to have been applied. * * * The Tariff often aims at incompatible ends ; the duties are sometimes meant to be both productive of revenue and for protective objects...
Страница 75 - They encourage the investment of capital in manufacturing enterprise by rash and unskilled speculators, to be followed by disaster to the adventurers and their employes, and a plethora of commodities which deranges the operations of skilled and prudent enterprise.
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...