Reciprocal Trade Agreements: Hearing Before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Seventy-third Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 8687, an Act to Amend the Tariff Act of 1930, April 26, 27, 30, and May 1, 1934U.S. Government Printing Office, 1934 - 415 páginas |
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Página 285 - The legislature cannot delegate its power to make a law, but it can make a law to delegate a power to determine some fact or state of things upon which the law makes, or intends to make, its own action depend. To deny this would be to stop the wheels of government. There are many things upon which wise
Página 25 - (1) Imposes, directly or indirectly, upon the disposition in or transportation in transit through or reexportation from such country of any article wholly or in part the growth or product of the United States any unreasonable charge, exaction, regulation, or limitation which is not equally enforced upon the like articles of every foreign country; or
Página 68 - or such continuance, and for such minimum periods, of existing customs or excise treatment of any article covered by foreign trade agreements. Your question is, What do we mean by that "excise treatment", and why is it necessary to have that in the bill? Senator GORE. Yes. That may make sense. I
Página 384 - (1) Imposes, directly or indirectly, upon the disposition in or transportation in transit through or reexportation from such country of any article wholly or in part the growth or product of the United States any unreasonable charge, exaction, regulation, or limitation which is not equally enforced upon the like articles of every foreign country; or "(b) Exclusion from
Página 66 - United States be and he hereby is authorized and empowered, whenever in his opinion the public safety shall so require, to lay an embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports of the United States, or upon the ships and vessels of the United States, or the ships and vessels of any foreign nation.
Página 262 - That Congress cannot delegate legislative power to the President is a principle universally recognized as vital to the integrity and maintenance of the system of Government ordained by the Constitution. The act of October 1, 1890, in the particular case under consideration is not inconsistent with that principle. It does not in any real sense invest the President with the power of legislation.
Página 384 - Tariff Act 1930, section 338: "(a) Unfair methods of competition declared unlawful: Unfair methods of competition and unfair acts in the importation of articles into the United States, or in their sale by the owner, importer, consignee, or agent of either, the effect or tendency of which is to destroy or substantially injure an industry, efficiently and economically operated in the United States, or to prevent the establishment
Página 68 - authorized from time to time to proclaim such modifications of existing duties and other import restrictions, or such additional import restrictions— and then comes the language to which you refer, Senator. Senator GORE. Yes. Mr. SAYRE (continuing).
Página 95 - The first amendment is on page 1, line 8. It pertains to taking the words "in the present emergency" out of line 11 and placing them instead in line 8 after the word "assisting", so as to read, "as a means of assisting in the present emergency in restoring the American standard of living." This is simply a matter of phraseology.
Página 111 - other leather manufactures." Senator HASTINGS. I should like to have some explanation of paragraph (b) on page 4. It certainly is not very clear. It says: Every foreign-trade agreement concluded pursuant to this act shall be subject to termination, upon due notice to the foreign government concerned, at the