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Example sentences for "protective duties"

  • The discussion of the relation of protective duties to monopoly appeared in the same quarterly for September, 1904.

  • State the principle which determines the relation between the amount of a country’s imports and that of its exports, and show how this relation is affected by a system of protective duties.

  • On the 12th of March Mr. Cobden brought the corn-law question before the house of commons, in the shape of a motion for a committee to inquire into the effects of protective duties on agricultural labourers and tenants.

  • He was about to act, he said, on the assumption adopted in the queen's speech, that the repeal of prohibitory duties, and the relaxation of protective duties is in itself a wise policy.

  • It is not as if we were setting up a new basis of protective duties.

  • Mr. Hamilton sustained the plan of encouraging home manufactures by protective duties, even to the point in some instances of making those "duties equivalent to prohibition.

  • She saw that the extent to which the principle of protective duties might be carried was entirely a matter of discretion with the young Republic whose people had lately been her subjects and might now become her rivals.

  • There was nothing in the legislation to show that Mr. Clay or his followers had in any degree abandoned or changed their faith in protective duties of their confidence in the ultimate decision of the public judgment.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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