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Teddy Roosevelt: “It should be considered whether it is not desirable that the tariff laws should provide for applying as against or in…”

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It should be considered whether it is not desirable that the tariff laws should provide for applying as against or in favor of any other nation maximum and minimum tariff rates established by the Congress, so as to secure a certain reciprocity of treatment between other nations and ourselves.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt suggests that tariff laws should be structured to ensure reciprocity in trade relations with other nations.

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