First edition of a prodigiously comprehensive bibliography on tariffs, listing 6453 works in print relating to the rationale, theory, implementation, history, policies, administration, legislation, economic aspects, and controversies on tariffs. This extensive report was published in the year in which President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act (RTAA) into law, seeking to mitigate the historic high reached by tariffs during the Great Depression. It is complemented and made accessible by indexes of countries, authors and subjects.

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