Otherwise the American merchant, manufacturer, and exporter will find many a field in which American trade should logically predominate preempted through the more energetic efforts of other governments and other commercial nations.
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Taft warns that without proactive measures, American businesses risk losing market opportunities to foreign competitors.
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