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Gerald Ford: “It would erect a non-tariff trade barrier at a time when we are trying to persuade other nations to dismantle theirs.”

On the recordJanuary 3, 1975
It would erect a non-tariff trade barrier at a time when we are trying to persuade other nations to dismantle theirs.
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Gerald Ford
Republican · Michigan

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Memorandum of Disapproval of a Bill To Restrict Imports of Filbert Products

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