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Show THE CITIZEN 7 4 smoot re .TOR elusion as to the proper rates to pose. flexibility explains IMPENDING TARIFF OP I need not enlarge upon the amount of time which it has required to bring this tariff revision to its present stage. Senators know only too well to what extent it has delayed other important legislation. But I may call your attention to the fact that with the prog-re-s of invention and the development of American industry, the number and diversity of the articles with which a tariff necessarily deals, increase from one revision to the next. The tariff of 1890, including the free list and omitting all administrative regulations, covers 47 large pages, the act of 1900, 71 pages, and the present tariff act is likely to cover 85 pages of the same size of type. It must be expected that every conscientious revision of the tariff will encroach to a greater extent than the previous one upon the time of the legislative branch. We are already in almost continuous session, and it increasingly necessary for us to delegate to executive and administrative agencies the working out of detailed adjustments. Business interests also will, no doubt, welcome measures which will render less frequent and less violent the upheavals incident to tariff revision and which will accordingly contribute to commercial and industrial stability. Flexibility in tariff rates is not by any means a new departure in American tariff legislation. In the act of 1S09 there was a maximum and minimum provision, the object of which with a quorum roll call, Sen., ttt as indicated by of Utah, April 24th, geed Smoot exhaustive speech on the ftjrdnev tariff bill, confining fi.-nat- ore jg an exposition of to df . its admin: features, which he classed as and lUng its flexibility, elasticity and ability to meet the unusual Ive the of i the economic vorld since the end of conditions of ing orld war. ator Smoot spoke in made had president, t dertake nplyn part as fol- - I am not now. going to discuss any of the What I to say today will relate to its features. I think those of the bill are most imported I have given considerable to their consideration and study, id now as briefly as possible to it my views upon them. the pending bill. of ad-trati- ve luel) be-ocm- speaking in his mes-o- f December 6 of tariff legisla expressed the hope that a way to make for. flexibil-- d be found elasticity so that rates may be ed to meet unusual and changing ions which can not be accurately At first the full force ipated. constructive proposal escaped ention of many. At present an ing sense of its significance is reflected in the press and is ding more and more support-iPresident, senate bill. sals not only im- es was to protect our foreign commerce against discriminations. In existing law, when it is found that any foreign government grants a bounty on the production of any product, countervailing duties shall be imposed upon such products when imported into the United States. This provision is incorporated in the bill now before the senate and is strengthened by providing that countervailing duties shall apply not only to bounties granted by governments but also to bounties granted by persons, partnerships, associations, cartels, or corporations. Cur antidumping statutes have also been an application of the principle of flexibility in tariff making in order that the tariff might be a means of protecting our industry against unfair competition. Following these The elastic tariff provide a suggests before Congres, but it a practical basis for a the Once they are scientific adjustment of uing the future. tood, I believe, in every member gross will welcome legislation will in part free us from dealing burdensome details and from the ions of putting through a general revision in a single bill. President, never in the worlds is there been a time when C. 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Phone Wei. 7638j Rea. 555 Weat lat North prece- dents and extending them to meet the new conditions which today confront us, it is now proposed to authorize the president: (a) To modify tariff rates either upward or downward within prescribed limits and in accordance with definite rules laid down by Congress, so that the rates may at all times conform to existing conditions. (b) To change the basis for the assessment of ad valorem duties on selected items from the foreign value to the value of the domestic article in the American market when the foreign value is not a certain basis for the assessment of duties on such items. (c) To impose penalty duties or prohibit the importation of particular s goods for the purpose of preventing unfair methods of competition in the Importation of goods. (d) To impose additional duties on the whole or any part of the Imports into the United States from any country which discriminates against our overseas commerce. 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