European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 13, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Log 4 the stars and stripes monday May 13, 1943 Geneva Tariff talks to affect american Gold flow problem by Carl ii Artman by As vacation time Rolls around More and More americans Start thinking about visits to the nightclubs of Paris and the canals of venire. It s fun but it s an International problem too. President Kennedy s administration is much More interested in getting american goods mov ing than tourists. Exported goods Send Money Home. Tourists leave Money abroad. Unless the goods Start moving faster the us. Government is go ing to have to do some hard thinking about american Money being spent by its citizens in for eign countries. Any restrictions on such spending would cause a lot of hard anti american feel Ingall Over the world. This i one reason Why a lot of importance is being Given to a conference that starts in Geneva thursday. It is the kind of meet ing that usually raises the inter est of Only a limited number of businessmen and Trade experts. The name of the meeting help explain Why it does t get Many people excited. It is called the ministerial conference of the countries in the general agree ment on tariffs and Trade Oatt it brings together All the major trading countries outside the communist bloc and at least one from Ioa Jde it Czechoslovakia. A couple of dozen Cabinet ministers will make Long speeches written la Advance by their experts. The experts will get to work on laying Down the lines for a major Effort to lower Trade barriers among their countries. The general idea is that the More International Trade you have the More Prosperity for everybody. The american idea Lathat the United states has got to Start Selling a lot More goods  the talks fool and american Trade does not increase one of two highly unpleasant things ingoing to happen More and More american Gold is going to have to be shipped abroad giving the world some dangerous ideas about Thresha Kleu of the american Dollar. The uj3. Government it going to Tell its citizens that they will have to Stop taking so much Money out of the country either for travel or investment number two is More Likely than number one. The experts say. The main Trade Barrier under attack in Geneva will be tariffs. The adm Salon fees that Ever country charge on incoming for eign goods. Their purpose is to protect Domestic businessmen. The into Tafftt Pruns Farmers and the people who work for them from Helnut driven out of he sent so by cheaper products from n Broad. Insl year the . Congress passed thu Trade expansion act. Giving president Kennedy Power to Cut tariffs that no president has Ever had before. If Ameri can experts can make advantageous deals with their foreign counterparts they Call this reciprocity they arc authorized to Cut 90 per cent from almost All is. Tariff  prospects Are so far reach ing As to frighten the experts in some countries who have Lon been urging the United states to take bolder Steps in  Are now getting queasy about the Protection they connive their own Farmers and businessmen. The outstanding example i France which has Long imposed fairly High tariffs of its own. It has a lot of goods especially food which it Hopes to sell i Western Europe with the help of the special preferences built up by the common Market. Under president Charles de Gaulle the French government is particularly suspicious of what it Seesaw american attempts to take Over French and other european markets. So the French have come up with on ingenious plan of their own for Tariff cutting. It does t go nearly so far As the american offer of a so per cent Cut across the Board but it has won som support within the common mar Ket the French cull it lopping of the peaks in this Case the Peak american Tariff rates. The United states has some very High Tariff rates and also some very Low ones. European rates tend to be More  the whole american rates Are somewhat higher though the average difference is not great and much less than it was before world War  dispute is not Likely to be settled at the present Geneva meeting though some Compro Mise May be reached so that preparations ran go on for Thelong process of actual bargaining. This is been colled the Ken Nedy round because of the pres ident s efforts to gel the Trade expansion act passed. Actual bargaining can Only Start next Spring. First this meet ing will Lay Down some Genera rules. Then the . Tariff com Mission has to hold a Long serve of hearings where american businessmen will state their claim for Protection. After that. Administration experts will draw up a list of products that mus get special treatment Only then can the complicated horse trading begin with Britain Japan. Canada and other major traders As Well As the United states and the common Market. Labor Takouni a unemployed worker in the dominican for pubic brandish Ahovelo in a Demon opinion of Adlai Stevenson Traylon on the it Rwy of Santo Dominco. Tow were do pc i by pollen. Tin for Berlin Calm will continue by by Var a Mun United nations to Ici it Matt. Mem r. Q. C mm147, Blue Moo. Us Sajn a we . Imm. In a a 3-90. I 3753 m Usalj my cd blackball German to producer ?itiet0iir w a but Ion omcss_1nano of Wutt Bonn up supporters of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer s Christian democratic Union have blocked the reappointment of the producer of Germany s most controversial television program. 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