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Richard Nixon: “Our key objectives in reform of the international trading system are to reduce existing tariff and nontariff barriers…”

On the recordJanuary 8, 1973
Our key objectives in reform of the international trading system are to reduce existing tariff and nontariff barriers affecting agricultural as well as industrial products, to establish new rules for the fairer conduct of world trade, and to open new opportunities for the poorer nations to earn the foreign exchange required for their development.
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Richard Nixon
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

Message to the Congress Transmitting Annual Report on the Trade Agreements Program for 1971.

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