Fisher's National Magazine and Industrial Record, Volume 3

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R. Fisher., 1846
 

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Pagina 499 - ... exportation of any articles to the United States, or to His Britannic Majesty's territories in Europe, respectively, than such as are payable on the exportation of the like articles to any other foreign country...
Pagina 272 - ... to make such addition in the entry to the cost or value given in the invoice, as in his opinion may raise the same to the true market value of such imports in the principal markets of the country whence the importation shall have been made...
Pagina 500 - Helena, or such other places as may be in the possession of Great Britain, in the African or Indian seas ; it being well understood that in all that regards this Article, the Citizens of the United States shall be subject, in all respects, to the laws and regulations of the British Government, from time to time established.
Pagina 379 - ... war. When we reflect upon the difficulty and delicacy of this operation, it is important that it should never be attempted but with the utmost caution. Frequent legislation, in regard to any branch of industry, affecting its value, and by which its capital may be transferred to new channels, must always be productive of hazardous speculation and loss. In deliberating, therefore, on these interesting subjects, local feelings and prejudices should be merged . in the patriotic determination to promote...
Pagina 379 - The general rule to be applied in graduating the duties upon articles of foreign growth or manufacture, is that which will place our own in fair competition with those of other countries ; and the inducements to advance even a step beyond this point, are controlling in regard to those articles which are of primary necessity in time of war.
Pagina 272 - An act to provide revenue from imports, and to change and modify existing laws imposing duties on imports, and for other purposes...
Pagina 274 - Manufactures of cotton, linen, silk, wool, or worsted, if embroidered or tamboured in the loom or otherwise, by machinery, or with the needle or other process. Manufactures, articles, vessels, and wares, of glass, or of which glass shall be a component material, not otherwise provided for.
Pagina 380 - A modification of the tariff which shall produce a reduction of our revenue to the wants of the Government and an adjustment of the duties on imports with a view to equal justice in relation to all our national iuterests and to the counteraction of foreign policy so far as it may be injurious to those interests, is deemed to be one of the principal objects which demand the consideration of the present Congress.
Pagina 21 - Specie is exported, and the most solid commercial houses are shaken. The public prosperity would soon feel the wound inflicted on private fortunes, if new regulations did not promptly change the actual state of affairs. "Events have proved that our agriculture and our commerce, as well as our manufacturing industry, are not only paralyzed, but brought to the brink of ruin.
Pagina 21 - Whatever, besides, tends to diminish in any country the number of artificers and manufacturers tends to diminish the home market, the most important of all markets for the rude produce of the land, and thereby still further to discourage agriculture.

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