The Tariff Board and Its Work (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Tariff Board and Its Work Mr. President and Gentlemen: I have many serious and, I fear, dry matters to discuss to-night. Therefore I shall not use any time to express at length the pleasure which the Tariff Board takes in being here. It is an honor to present a statement of its methods and work and its hopes for the future to so distinguished and representative a body of business men. I shall try to give you in the most direct and simple manner a brief account of what the Tariff Board has done; what the nature of its inquiry is; what results it believes can be obtained; and what things it considers impossible of attainment. Also I shall consider the question of what methods of investigation and what powers of inquiry are best suited to achieve the really important results. The appointment of the Tariff Board was under authority of section 2 of the tariff act of August 5, 1909. This section was the one providing for a maximum and minimum tariff, and giving to the President the power to issue a proclamation any time before March 31, 1910, granting to any country the privileges of our minimum tariff when he should be satisfied that such country did not discriminate against the United States or its products. This section contained the words: To secure information to assist the President in the discharge of the duties imposed upon him by this section, and the officers of the Government in the administration of the customs laws, the President is hereby authorized to employ such persons as may be required. We, and those who are employed with us, are "such persons." The board was appointed in September, 1909, and held its first meeting on the 24th of that month. It had already been a subject of debate as to what authority the board had under this section to make investigations into the effect of our home tariff and the cost of production at home and abroad. This question, however, did not concern us at the outset, as we were directed to cooperate with the Department of State both in investigating the question of discrimination on the part of foreign countries and in the arduous negotiations which followed, aiming at the removal of such discriminations where they existed. This work required the whole time of the Tariff Board and its assistants until the 1st of April, by which time, fortunately, proclamations had been issued in favor of all countries, and all threatened tariff wars were averted. In April, then, the board began to consider for the first time in detail the matter of investigations into the industrial effects of our own tariff. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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