The Tariff Commission and the Flexible Tariff

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The Tariff Commission and the Flexible Tariff

The Hawley tariff bill, as passed by the House, May 28, 1929, embodied two important modifications of the flexible tariff system set up by Congress in 1922. The first of the amendments approved by the lower house -seeks to provide a less rigid method than that now in use by the United States Tariff Commission for determining whether or not particular rates of duties prescribed by Congress are subject to revision by the President. The second proposes a reorganization of the Tariff Commission to promote speedier action upon cases submitted for investigation under the flexible tariff plan.

Whenever Congress itself has undertaken a revision of tariff rates, a complete rewriting of existing schedules has followed in almost every case. ...

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