Experience has revealed these weaknesses in our tariff policies: First. the present remedies against injury from imports have been ineffective despite all legislative efforts to make them serviceable. second. they will continue ineffective unless and until the stranglehold of the State Department on foreign trade policy is broken. third. until the regulation of our foreign trade policy is restored to Congress where it belongs under the Constitution. The Lanham bill will eliminate these defects. Furthermore. the Lanham bill is designed to improve the quota system by combining it with the tariff. As a result. the benefits of both methods of protection can be achieved. while the rigidity and the administrative burden of the absolute quota and the inadequacy of the tariff by itself to overcome the inequality of competition from different countries can be eliminated. Moreover. it seeks to encourage the improvement of wage standards in countries that export to us. by offering those that increase their wage levels in relation to ours. a bonus in the form of an increase in the volume of exports that they could ship to us.
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