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High Tariff Diplomacy
Pearson, Drew | February 27, 1929 issue

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The farmers of the Middle West object to the pigeons on the sea-coasts eating driblets of Argentine corn. It costs these farmers about thirty-four cents a bushel to ship corn to San Francisco and about twenty-two cents to ship to New York. The water haul from Argentina is about twelve cents. But they are not interested in the price which the bird fancier has to pay for his feed. Nor are they interested in the fact that the Argentine importation amounts to only .008 per cent of their total corn production. So they demand an increase of 100 per cent in the tariff on corn. Compared to our paltry purchase of a million bushels of corn, Argentina buys from us more goods than any other Latin-American country.

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CORN; FARMERS; AGRICULTURE; TARIFF; COMMERCIAL policy; ARGENTINA; UNITED States
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