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the right to suspend for a time the duties on imports 

 and allow foreign sugar to come in. As at Mendoza, 

 the provincial Government intervenes as well as the 

 national. The alternation of bad and exceptionally 

 good harvests leads to the appearance of all sorts of 

 unforeseen laws, modifying the bases of taxation, 

 regulating production in the works, and restricting the 

 acreage of cultivation. ^ Thus Tucuman has lived in 

 an atmosphere of storm and uncertainty and unceasing 

 discussion, of discouragement and insecurity ; the 

 price of its geographical position at the extreme limit 

 of the area in which cane can be grown. 



• Especially during the crisis of 1902-3. 



