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Article: Free-trade fight. (includes Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- September 23, 1985
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With battle lines drawn, President Reagan and Congress are racing toward a showdown over whether to protect America from surging imports.
At the White House, the President huddled in mid-September with Republican congressional leaders to plot a new trade strategy. On capitol Hill, impatient lawmakers pressed for fast action to block foreign goods. Some 300 bills calling for import protection ranging from higher tariffs on waterbed mattresses to massive retaliation against goods from Japan await action. "We've got to do something," says Representative Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.).
The strains created by imports are being felt in the heartland as well as ...