Selling Latin America

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Identifikator:: 101030657X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-41609

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Aughinbaugh, William E.

Title:: Selling Latin America

Place of publication:: Boston

Publisher:: Small, Maynard & Company Publishers

Year of publication:: 1915

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 408 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: XXIII. Custom-houses and tariffs

Collection:: Economics Books

CUSTOM-HOUSES 273 legitimate fines on our exports to them. It may be argued that in the end the cost is finally borne by them, but the fact nevertheless re mains that there is much work here to be done by our government to overcome these condi tions for the benefit of all parties involved. It is decidedly unfair for a country to collect revenues both ways, namely, on its exports to us and on our exports to it. The importer is the one who bears the brunt of these burdens. He is continually paying bribes or fines which are of course added to the cost of the goods. Failure on his part to “come across” means delays, loss of goods, higher port charges and incalculable annoy ances. One of the great objections to this sys tem of robbery aside from its basic principle of error is that one shipment does not serve as a means for calculating a price on the next one. A new custom-house official (and cus tom-house officials are changed in these lands as often as a chameleon changes color) may have come into office between shipments re quiring a higher standard of fines and bribes

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