Tariff Readjustment--1929: Hearings Before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, Seventieth Congress, Second Session...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1929 - Tariff |
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Page 9746
... basis of value , the department is confining its suggested amendments to the improvement of the present basis rather than the substitution of some alternative . Section 500 of the tariff act imposes on the appraiser the duty of ...
... basis of value , the department is confining its suggested amendments to the improvement of the present basis rather than the substitution of some alternative . Section 500 of the tariff act imposes on the appraiser the duty of ...
Page 9747
... basis used by the appraiser had been properly determined , and , if not , to a redetermination of the value on that basis only . The depart- ment believes that the existing law is susceptible of being so con- strued and that the result ...
... basis used by the appraiser had been properly determined , and , if not , to a redetermination of the value on that basis only . The depart- ment believes that the existing law is susceptible of being so con- strued and that the result ...
Page 9759
... basis in public policy . ( c ) Damage to specific - duty goods should be allowed for the same as for ad valorem goods . If the value of merchandise is impaired 50 per cent , say , an ad valorem duty is automatically reduced accordingly ...
... basis in public policy . ( c ) Damage to specific - duty goods should be allowed for the same as for ad valorem goods . If the value of merchandise is impaired 50 per cent , say , an ad valorem duty is automatically reduced accordingly ...
Page 9772
... basis of cost of production . It quite often happens that an article is sold much lower than the cost of production . Furthermore , taking a long period of time under con- sideration , the price level would reveal to some degree the ...
... basis of cost of production . It quite often happens that an article is sold much lower than the cost of production . Furthermore , taking a long period of time under con- sideration , the price level would reveal to some degree the ...
Page 9774
... basis for the selection of subsequent commissioners , so that eventually each of these districts will be represented by one member on the Tariff Commission : District No. 1 : Maine , New Hampshire , Vermont , Massachusetts , Connecti ...
... basis for the selection of subsequent commissioners , so that eventually each of these districts will be represented by one member on the Tariff Commission : District No. 1 : Maine , New Hampshire , Vermont , Massachusetts , Connecti ...
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Page 10150 - The true distinction, therefore, is, between the delegation of power to make the law, which necessarily involves a discretion as to what it shall be, and conferring an authority or discretion as to its execution, to be exercised under and in pursuance of the law. The first cannot be done; to the latter no valid objection can be made.
Page 10128 - 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.
Page 10125 - We admit, as all must admit, that the powers of the government are limited, and that its limits are not to be transcended. But we think the sound construction of the Constitution must allow to the national legislature that discretion, with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it, in the manner most beneficial to the people.
Page 10246 - The export value of imported merchandise shall be the market value or the price, at the time of exportation of such merchandise to the United States, at which such or similar merchandise is freely offered for sale to all purchasers in the principal markets of the country from which exported, in the usual wholesale quantities and in the ordinary course of trade, for exportation to the United States...
Page 10127 - ... imposes duties or other exactions upon the agricultural or other products of the United States which, in view of the free introduction of such sugar, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides into the United States, he may deem to be reciprocally unequal and unreasonable...
Page 10125 - Should Congress, in the execution of its powers, adopt measures which are prohibited by the constitution ; or should Congress, under the pretext of executing its powers, pass laws for the accomplishment of objects not entrusted to the government...
Page 9957 - The proceedings of such libel cases shall conform, as near as may be, to the proceedings in admiralty, except that either party may demand trial by jury of any issue of fact joined in any such case, and all such proceedings shall be at the suit of and in the name of the United States.
Page 10159 - If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation ; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit which the use can at any...
Page 9777 - 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...
Page 9787 - ... and such article or merchandise is dutiable under the provisions of this Act, then upon the importation of any such article or merchandise into the United States, whether the same shall be imported directly from the country of production or otherwise, and...