Show flexible tariff statute upheld washington the constitutionality of the flexible provisions of the tariff law aw whereby the president mayr may raise alse or lower important duties 50 60 per cent was upheld by the united states court of at customs appeals the question probably will be carried to the su reme ireme court the court held that the le lele gatlon legation of such authority to the resident president was a valid exercise ot of the institutional grant ot of power to con iress to regulate commerce its purpose is to equalize the difference in cost of production in this and the principal competing countries |