Britain Under Protection : An Examination of the Government's Protectionist Policy /: An Examination of the Government's Protectionist Policy. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ranald M. Findlay.
• Authors: Findlay, Ranald M
• Contents: ""Cover""; ""Half Title ""; ""Title ""; ""Copyright ""; ""Original Title ""; ""Original Copyright ""; ""Contents ""; ""Foreword""; ""I. The Crisis of 1931""; ""II. The New Duties ""; ""Abnormal Importations Act""; ""First Orders""; ""First Effects""; ""Early Anomalies""; ""Horticultural Products Act""; ""Import Duties Act""; ""Additional Duties ""; ""Later Tariff Order""; ""More Food Taxes""; ""Amount of Goods Taxed""; ""Reasons for New Duties""; ""Tariff Reductions.""; ""III. The Advisory Committee ""; ""Tariff Committees in Other Countries""; ""Our Tariff Committee at Work."" ""IV. Retaliation """"The French Surtax""; ""Foreign Coal Quotas""; ""Mr.Runciman's Tariff War""; ""More Surtaxes""; ""Mr.Runciman's Heavy Hand""; ""Anglo-French Agreement""; ""Effects of Retaliation""; ""Lost Coal Orders.""; ""V. Bargaining ""; ""Imperial Bargaining""; ""Failure of Ottawa""; ""Foreign Trade Pacts""; ""The German Agreement""; ""The Danish Agreement""; ""The Argentine Agreement""; ""Other Foreign Agreements""; ""The Russian Settlement ""; ""The World Conference""; ""Methods of Tariff Reduction""; ""The Tariff Truce.""; ""VI. Anomalies and Interference ""; ""Rebates"" ""Port Dues""""Customs Delay ""; ""A Paper Anomaly""; ""Tariff on Timber""; ""Taxing British""; ""Taxing Science ""; ""Taxing Health""; ""900 Per Cent!""; ""Lost Business""; ""Uncertainty the Curse.""; ""VII. Prices""; ""Wage Reductions and Purchasing Power""; ""Cost of Production ""; """"The Foreigner Pays""""; ""Lead and Zine ""; ""Copper ""; ""Timber""; ""Furnishings""; ""Paper""; ""Steel""; ""Iron and Steel Tubes""; ""Chemical Material""; ""Nails""; ""Tin Boxes""; ""Household Goods""; ""Woollen Machinery""; ""Dyestuffs""; ""Paints and Colour""; ""Fertilizers""; ""Oil""; ""Benzole"" ""Dental Requisite""""Medicine""; ""Vegetables""; ""Fruit""; ""Feeding-Stuffs""; ""Wheat.""; ""VIII. New Tariff Factories ""; ""Appeal to Local Interest""; ""Assembling Shops""; ""Bogus Firms""; ""Artificial Silk""; ""Attracting Competition""; ""Overhead Expenses""; ""Lower Wages Abroad""; ""More Employment ""; ""Protectionist Propaganda ""; ""Free Trade Factories ""; ""Displacement of Labour""; ""Mr. Baldwin's Warning.""; ""IX. Conflict of Intersets ""; ""Example of Wire""; ""Taxing Sir Herbert Austin ""; ""The Fishing Industry""; ""Poultry.""; ""X. Disillusionment ""; ""The Times First "" ""Then Lord Beaverbrook """"Quotas and Quackery""; ""Tax on Timber""; ""Steamers Laid Up""; ""The Railways""; ""Artificial Silk Losse""; ""No Help from Ottawa""; ""Textile Depression ""; ""Mr.Chamberlain Rebuked ""; ""Increased Costs of Production""; ""Herring Fishing Alarm""; ""A Lost Order ""; ""Dominion Profiteering ""; ""Glass Price""; ""The Wheat Tax ""; ""A Result of Ottawa ""; ""Raw Materials Taxed ""; ""Unstable Protection ""; ""Lost Foreign Trade.""; ""XI. Log-Rolling ""; ""American Experience""; """"The Tariff Scandal""""; ""Australia, Too""; ""Our Own Experience ""
• Publisher Details: London : Taylor and Francis
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 382.70941 F494; Economics; Politics of International Trade; Free trade; Tariff; Great Britain; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781315099545; 1315099543; 9781351583411; 1351583417
• Related ISBNs: 9781138297050; 9781138105843
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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