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1936 › Alf Landon (Republican) › Tariff levels
Protect the farmer against imports of livestock, dairy and farm products; keep non-competing goods on the free list
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Solution
Maintain protection on all commodities competing with American farms and industries, including quarantine against imports from countries with weaker sanitary rules; keep free-list items free.
Rationale
Forty percent of imports compete with American producers subsidized by foreign governments and 'low-wage and depreciated-currency countries.'
Statements (3)
To protect the American farmer against the importation of all live stock, dairy, and agricultural products, substitutes thereof, and derivatives therefrom, which will depress American farm prices.
We would keep on the free list all products not grown or produced in the United States in commercial quantities.
Our farmers are entitled to all of the home market they can supply without injustice to the consumer. We propose a policy that protects them in this right.
Follow-through
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Tariff reductions continued under the trade agreements; the 1938 agreements with Britain and Canada lowered farm duties.
Other positions on this issue
- Endorsement of the Smoot-Hawley tariff — Alfred E. Smith, 1932 directional_stance
- Revise the tariff downward through reciprocal trade agreements — Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 directional_stance
- A "competitive" tariff set through a scientific Tariff Commission, with anti-log-rolling rules and a public counsel — Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 specific_pledge
- Preserve the bipartisan Tariff Commission's flexible power to adjust rates without congressional log-rolling — Herbert Hoover, 1932 specific_pledge
- Unconditional most-favored-nation treatment; no reciprocal bargains or preferences — Herbert Hoover, 1932 specific_pledge
- Maintain — and if necessary widen — the protective tariff; reject the Democratic 'competitive tariff for revenue' — Herbert Hoover, 1932 specific_pledge
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