Tariff Act of 1929: Hearings Before the Committee on Fiance, United States Senate, Seventy-first Congress, First Session on H.R. 2667, an Act to Provide Revenue, to Regulate Commerce with Foreign Countries, to Encourage the Industries of the United States, to Protect American Labor, and for Other Purposes. Special and Administrative Provisions. July 15, 16, 17, and 18, 1929. Indexed. Printed for the Use of the Committee on FinanceU.S. Government Printing Office, 1929 - 620 pages |
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Page 415 - We think the sound construction of the Constitution must allow to the National Legislature that discretion, with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it, in the manner most beneficial to the people.
Page 193 - The Secretary of the Treasury shall prepare and issue all export debentures. Export debentures issued under authority of this Act shall be obligations of the United States within the definition in section 147 of the Act entitled "An Act to codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States," approved March 4, 1909, as amended [USC title 18,
Page 531 - from any loss or damage resulting from fraud or negligence on the part of any officer, agent, or other person employed by the above-bounden principal, then this obligation to be null and void; otherwise to remain in full force and virtue. Signed, sealed, and delivered in presence of— , [seal.] , [SEAL.] , —— ■ [SEAL.]
Page 105 - such or similar merchandise is freely offered for sale to all purchasers in the principal markets of the country from which exported, in the usual wholesale quantities and in the ordinary course of trade, including the cost of all containers and coverings of whatever nature, and all other costs, charges, and expenses
Page 67 - import cost" means the price at which an article is freely offered for sale in the ordinary course of trade in the usual wholesale quantities for exportation to the United States, plus, when not included in such price, all necessary expenses, exclusive of customs duties, of bringing such imported article to the United States,
Page 604 - the Secretary of the Treasury or the Secretary of Commerce, if he finds that such fine, penalty, or forfeiture was incurred without willful negligence or without any intention on the part of the petitioner to defraud the revenue or to violate the law, or finds the existence of such mitigating circumstances as to justify the remission,
Page 45 - the United States, at a time preceding the date of exportation of the particular merchandise under consideration which would ordinarily permit the manufacture or production of the particular merchandise under consideration in the usual course of business; (2) The usual general expenses (not less than 10 per cent of such cost) in the case of such
Page 597 - Sec. 3088. Whenever a vessel, or the owner or master of a vessel, has become subject to a penalty for a violation of the revenue laws of the United States, such vessel shall be holden for the payment of such penalty, and may be seized and proceeded against summarily by libel to recover such penalty.
Page 92 - cost' means the price at which an article is freely offered for sale in the ordinary course of trade in the usual wholesale quantities for exportation to the United States, plus, when not included in such price, all necessary expenses, exclusive of customs duties, of bringing such imported
Page 47 - (a) Manner of marking - Every article imported into the United States, and its immediate container, and the package in which such article is imported, shall be marked, stamped, branded, or labeled, in legible English words, in a conspicuous place that shall not be covered or obscured by any subsequent attachments or arrangements,