Washington, June 22.
The Secretary of the Department of Commerce, Mr. Robert Lamont in the course of a speech here today, said that the Tariff Bill would not retard the amazing growth of the foreign trade of the Unite! States.
'After the tariff changes in 1922, hho continued, there were as many protests from foreign countries 25} had been received in the present yea. In the seven years since the last tariff' was enforced, the total exports from the United States had jereased by 41 per cent, and i the same period, 1922-29, imports of manufactures' from Europe had riven by forty-five per cent.
The Secretary of stated signieantly that the Kingdom was the only important country from which the United tates purchased less in 1929 than in 1922, This decline, he declare, had not been due to changes in the! duty rates of the United Stater. For the same seven-year perial, Mr, Lamont asserted, exports. of manufactures from "the United States-had- increased by-practically 100 per cent, per annuni.—Reuter.
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