COMMERCE REPORTS. A WEEKLY SURVEY OF FORREIGN TRADE. OCTOBER 4, 1926. NO. 40. |
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agricultural amounted Argentina Assistant Trade Commissioner August Australia automobile Automotive average Bank Belgium Brazil British Bureau of Foreign Cable review Canada cars cent Chile coal COMMERCE REPORTS Commercial Attaché commodities compared construction cotton countries crop crowns Cuba Czechoslovakia decline decrease demand district Division dolls domestic electrical end of month equipment exchange exports factories favorable figures florins Foreign trade opportunities France French Germany Government hundredweight import duty improvement increase India Irish Free iron and steel Japan July kilos Latvia leather loans long tons manufacturers ment Mexico mills milreis months of 1926 motor Netherlands nitrate October October 15 paper period of 1925 pesetas pesos piculs ports pounds production Purchase and agency quantity Railway rates reduced rubber September shipments shipped shoes short tons showed silk Special circulars available stocks sugar tariff textile thous tion United Kingdom Vice Consul wool yarn zlotys
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Página 374 - Congress by this act intended, whenever the President, upon investigation of the differences in costs of production of articles wholly or in part the growth or product of the United States and of like or similar articles wholly or in part the growth or product of competing foreign countries...
Página 417 - A list of these importers may be obtained from the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce or its district and cooperative offices by referring to file FE-19027. Samples of so-called
Página 323 - ... 1925 to amount to hundreds of millions a year. The insufficiency of transportation interfered with steady industrial operations, created intermittent employment, increased the cost of production, and, through periodic strangulation, caused high prices to the consumer. Manufacturers and distributors were compelled to carry excessive inventories as a protective measure, thus not only increasing the amount of capital required in the business but multiplying the danger of loss by price fluctuation.
Página 202 - ... even to 40 cents a pound, where rubber now is, the consumers of the world would complain far more bitterly than the American rubber consumers. Each and every one of these objections to such controls has been demonstrated as valid by actual experience. Decreased consumption, substitutions, stimulation to uneconomic production, great losses to industry and consumer, international friction have been the only real products of these governmental controls, except extravagant profits to a few producers...
Página 384 - We must add to knowledge, both for the intellectual and spiritual satisfaction that comes from widening the range of human understanding, and for the direct practical utilization of these fundamental discoveries. A special study in an industrial laboratory, resulting in the improvement of some machine or process, is of great value to the world. But the discovery of a law of nature, applicable in thousands of instances and forming a permanent and ever available addition to knowledge, is a far greater...
Página 262 - Our farms produce 13 per cent more with the same number of farmers as 12 years ago ; our railways carry 22 per cent more traffic with about the same number of men. We have tamed the kilowatt into the friend of man. We have now domesticated some •68,000,000,000 kilowatt-hours annually where we used 23,000,000,000 12 years ago. They increase output and decrease sweat. These are the reasons why we are able to sell goods of high quality, produced under the highest real wages in the world, in competition...
Página 419 - Shanghai may be obtained from the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce or its district and cooperative offices by reference to file 82090.
Página 262 - Under the pressure of high wages we have ruthlessly revised our industry with every new invention. Beyond this there is great and cooperative movement in American industry and commerce for cutting: out waste in a thousand directions through improved business practice, through simplification of processes and methods. Furthermore, we have had a great advantage, which we must not deny, in that by volume production, made • possible through a great domestic market, we have been able by repetitive processes...
Página 240 - Provided that bona fide trade catalogues and price lists not specially designed to advertise the sale of goods by any person in Canada, when sent into Canada in single copies addressed to merchants therein, and not exceeding one copy to any merchant for his own use, but not for distribution, shall be exempt from customs duty under all Tariffs.
Página 325 - Each system must be considered as a whole and organized to the maximum results. We need immediate determination of the broad objective and best development of every river, stream, and lake in our country in order that we do not undertake or permit haphazard development, whether public or private, that will destroy the possibilities of the maximum future returns.