Der österreichische Exporteur

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Identifikator:: 1758074884

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-135614

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Der österreichische Exporteur

Edition:: [2. Aufl]

Place of publication:: Wien

Publisher:: [Kammer für Handel, Gewerbe und Industrie]

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: 240 S.

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Alphabetisch geordnete Warenliste (mit Verweisungen auf das folgende Firmenverzeichnis)

Collection:: Economics Books

I> Essays ) between a duty on the importation of goods, and an excise on their consumption? A. Yes, a very material one; an excise, for the reasons I have just mentioned, they think you can have no right to lay within their country. But the sea 1s yours; you maintain, by your fleets, the safety of navigation in it, and keep it clear of pirates; you may have, therefore, a natural and equitable right to some toll or duty on merchandises carried through that part of your dominions, towards defraying the expense you are at in ships to maintain the safety of that carriage. Q. Does this reasoning hold in the case of a duty laid on the produce of their lands exported? And would they not then object to such a duty? A. If it tended to make the produce so much dearer abroad, as to lessen the demand for it, to be sure they would object to such a duty; not to your right of laying it, but they would complain of it as a burden, and petition you to lighten it. Q. Is not the duty paid on the tobacco exported, a duty of that kind? A. That, I think, is only on tobacco carried coast- wise, from one colony to another, and appropriated as a fund for supporting the college at Williamsburg in Virginia. Q. Have not the assemblies in the West Indies the same natural rights with those in North America? A. Undoubtedly. Q. And is there not a tax laid there on theirsugars exported ? A. I am not much acquainted with the West 766] ole

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