"World Trade in the 1970s"
Journal article
By: AFL-CIO Economic Policy Committee
Date: May 1970
Source: AFL-CIO Economic Policy Committee. "World Trade in the 1970s." American Federationist, May 1970, 9, 10, 11–12, 13, 15.
About the Organization: The AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations) Economic Policy Committee was charged by the national AFL-CIO to prepare a report on the impact of the growing, global, free-trade movement on American organized labor. This report was published in May 1970.
Introduction
Tariffs and import/export taxes—second only to slavery—were the most divisive political issues in American politics during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The United States has used tariffs as a tool of economic policy throughout its history, both in order to raise money for the government and to encourage the sale and...
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