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ad valorem American amount Argentina Australia average breeds carpet wool cents a pound cents per pound cents per scoured clip commodities consumer cost of production cost of wool crossbred decrease domestic wool drought in Australia duction duty on wool economic England expense per head export farm sheep fleece flocks free wool grades grazing greater higher price Homestead Act important increase Index Number land method mutton and lamb number of sheep Port Phillip pounds of wool price of wool production of wool profit range raw material receipts from mutton receipts from wool reduced returns from mutton scoured pound sheep husbandry sheep industry sheep raising South Africa sumers Tariff Act Tariff Board tion Total Receipts trade U. S. Department U. S. Tariff Commission United United Kingdom Uruguay West wool duty wool growers Wool Growing Industry wool manufacturing wool prices wool production wool-growing woolen
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Page 337 - Reports of the Departmental Committee appointed by the Board of Trade to consider the position of the. First report (Nov., 1916). The German Control Stations and the Atlantic Emigrant Traffic.
Page i - The Carnegie Corporation, in committing to the Trustees the administration of the endowment, over which the Corporation will have no control whatsoever, has in mind a single purpose — namely, that the Institute shall be conducted with the sole object of ascertaining the facts about current economic problems and of interpreting these facts for the people of the United States in the most simple and understandable form. The Institute shall be administered by its Trustees without regard to the special...
Page 333 - AN ACT To provide revenue, to regulate commerce with foreign countries, to encourage the industries of the United States, to protect American labor, and for other purposes...
Page 156 - Class one, that is to say, Merino, mestiza, metz, or metis wools, or other wools of Merino blood, immediate or remote, Down clothing wools, and wools of like character with any of the preceding, including such as have been heretofore usually imported into...
Page 148 - Treasury and under such regulations as he shall prescribe ; and if within three years from the date of importation or withdrawal from bonded warehouse satisfactory proof is furnished that the wools have been used in the manufacture of rugs, carpets, or any other floor coverings, the duties shall be remitted or refunded...
Page 148 - In lieu of such deposit or bond the owner or agent of any vessel or vehicle or line of vessels or vehicles may execute a bond in an amount to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury to cover and include the issuance of special licenses for the unlading of such vessels or vehicles for a period not to exceed one year.
Page ix - In the view of the Institute the tariff is not a single problem to be solved by the application of a general formula. Its application to each particular industry gives rise to questions of public policy which may be peculiar to that industry. There has been an abundance of abstract theorizing in the United States about free trade and protection and there has been no dearth of statistical evidence submitted by interested parties for the purpose of bolstering a theory or advancing a private interest,...
Page 335 - College of Agriculture. Statistical Bulletin No. 3, "Sheep, Lamb, Mutton and Wool Statistics, year ended March 31, 1923, with comparable data for earlier years," prepared by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, May 9, 1924.
Page ix - Consequently, the Institute of Economics has undertaken an analysis of the entire American system of customs duties. Before attempting any broad generalizations regarding the wisdom of American tariff policy as a whole, the Institute will first present a series of special investigations dealing with the relation of the tariff to particular lines of production in the United States. The tariff is not a single problem to be solved by the application of any one general formula. With reference to each...