Excerpt from State and Federal Marketing Activities and Other Economic Work, 1936, Vol. 16 Under the new trade agreement between the United States and Switzerland, signed January 9, Switzerland agrees to extend benefits in the form of duty reductions, quota increases, and other assurances covering a number of important American agricultural products, according to the U. S. Department of Agriculture; In 1929 Switzerland imported these products from the United States to a total value of This trade, largely because of increased import restrictions by Switzer; land, had declined to only in 1934. The department says that with gradual improvement in world eco nomic conditions and particularly with improvement in Switzerland, our agricultural exports to Switzerland may be expected to climb toward the 1929 level. Secretary Wallace points out that Switzerland has retaliated strongly against agricultural imports from the United States because of increases in duties on Swiss products in the smoot-hawley tariff. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.