The Tariff, 1929–30

F. W. Taussig

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1930, vol. 44, issue 2, 175-204

Abstract: I. The principle of equalizing costs professes to extend no favors, 175; in actual legislation, there is a scramble for favors, 177.—II. The Tariff Commission was established in 1916 as a body for inquiry and report, 178.—The great changes, in the flexible provisions of 1922, 179.—III. The Session of 1929–30, 180.—The make-up and procedure of the House and Senate Committees, 181.—The revolt of the insurgents, 184.—IV. The principle of merely equalizing costs ignored; aid to depressed industries (such as sugar) the dominant note, 186.—The farmers' representatives press for aid in other ways than by increased tariff rates, 189.—V. The Tariff Commission again; its unsatisfactory working after 1922, 191.—VI. Possibilities of the future, 194.—Tariff Boards in other English-speaking countries; the combination of power and responsibility in a Minister, 196.—Nothing of the kind in the United States, 197. — The President's position, 198.—Possibilities suggested by the methods elsewhere; Cabinet members and Congress, 199.—VII. No far-reaching changes to be expected, 200.—Maintenance and improvement of the present system the only practicable policy, 201.

Date: 1930
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