The fund urged action to encourage a more uniform system of tariffs.

A common system of tariffs will apply to goods imported from third-party countries.

"You set up a system of tariffs.

Eventually, John A. Macdonald set up a Canadian system of tariffs known as the National Policy.

Instead it was said to be intended to bring the United States procedures into line with the "harmonized" system of tariffs that now govern international trade relations.

The merger, they said, could eventually lead to the dismantling of the system of tariffs that govern long-distance rates between the United States and Britain.

It funded the debts of the American Revolution, set up a national bank, and set up a system of tariffs and taxes.

Mr. Bush and Congress must also look at ways to fix the outdated system of tariffs that punish American interests at home and overseas.

On the supply side, the EAC licenses electric power suppliers, manages the systems of tariffs and fees, and in general regulates the economic environment of power production.

The Corn Laws of the UK had been passed in 1815, setting a fluctuating system of tariffs to stabilise the price of wheat in the domestic market.

In a career that spanned three decades, Aldrich helped to create an extensive system of tariffs that protected American factories and farms from foreign competition, while driving the price of consumer goods artificially high.

That may work, after a time: the European Union agreed to dismantle its system of tariffs and quotas for importing bananas last year, after suffering $191 million a year in retaliatory American tariffs since 1999.

Firstly, the list covering the funding and the system of tariffs for ports, clear rules on state aid to ports and, finally, the adoption of measures guaranteeing access to the port services market through legislative instruments established at the Commission's initiative and within its powers.

As Secretary of the Treasury, Hamilton was the primary author of the economic policies of the George Washington administration, especially the funding of the state debts by the Federal government, the establishment of a national bank, a system of tariffs, and friendly trade relations with Britain.

Angered by this, Chamberlain spoke at the Birmingham Town Hall on 15 May without the government's permission, arguing for an Empire-wide system of tariffs which would protect Imperial economies, forge the British Empire into one political entity and allow them to compete with other world powers.

As Democrats in Congress and the Bush administration look for common ground on a workable trade policy, it is worth taking a harder look at the capricious system of tariffs that raise the price of goods and are all too often based on outdated political considerations that defy logic and good sense.