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On the recordJanuary 8, 1963
As explained in my message of March 7, 1962, the Tariff Commission in preparation for the 1960-61 tariff conference was required to make hurried predictions as to future market conditions for thousands of individual articles.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Special Message to the Congress Transmitting Trade Agreements With the United Kingdom and Japan

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