AMERICAN TRADE
EUROPEAN TARIFF BARRIERS
DISCUSSION IN SENATE.
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.
WASHINGTON, September 9. The reaction to the disclosure that tho new French tariff,, which became effective last Tuesday, includes schedules which are considered extremely harsh and, in many instances, prohibitive in respect of the importation of American manufactured goods, was swift and emphatic here. Senator Borah declared that it was evident that Europe, gradually hut smrclv, was forming an economic combination which might result disastrously for the United States. Senator Harrison said that Franco should not bo permitted to obtain a; private loan from this country’s bankers until she had funded, tiro .war debt.' It is understood that a movement is afoot in the Senate against the granting of favored debt treatment to "European countries which intended to “ freeze out ” Americans from trade competition.
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Evening Star, Issue 19659, 12 September 1927, Page 7
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135AMERICAN TRADE Evening Star, Issue 19659, 12 September 1927, Page 7
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