The Litchfield County post., 1827-12-27

is now enlarging the commercial dominion of nations of the present day. The situation
 of the United States locally the number and position of their posts along SD extended line of coast the tonnage of which they are actu- ! ally in possession, with the commercial expe-
 rience of their people, point them out as pe- ! culiarIy fitted to derive advantage from this system, and serve to recommend for 1t more liberal enactments than any of which it has yet been the subject. By our present laws the merchant is compelled to re-expOrt, with in twelvemonth, the foreign commodity he
 has imported. or lose the drawback. Hence,
 he loses all opportunity, after this time, of sending the commodity to seek foreign mar kets when the market at home may fail. The
 restriction put upon him in this respect, ought, 1 it is conceived to be done away, by extending the time during which he might exercise the
 right of re-exportation. At present, whenever 1 redundancy of foreign goods is seen in the 1 country, as will happen occasionally in all l trading countries, from the impossibty of adapting precisely the supply to the demand, 1 the excess fnOt sent abroad is thrown upon | the home market, at whatever reduction of 1 price. This operates to the injury both Ofthc home manufacturer and the importer. By l enlarging the time of re-exp0rtation, with l privilege of drawback, such excess, whenever
 existing, would be more likely to seek vent l in other countries, ,and with improved chances of finding it profitable. Should the wisdom l of Congress deem an alteration in the laws, with view to enlarge the privilege of re-ex- l portatiOn, expedient, an authority 10 build 1 additional warehouses in some of the plinci pal seaport towns will be necessary. The
 local accommodation for merchadize that ! must ge into store, under the existing laws, is | insufficient. Larger and better constructed edifices are required, even for the present | wants of our commerce. A commerce which l yields to the national treasury revenue of twenty millions of dollars year, under a ta- 1 riff far more moderate, even since 1924, than 1 that which has marked the career Ofany great
 state of modern times, is entitled to adequate and liberal provisions for its accommodation. Where interests are mutfarious, as in free, popu- lous and opulent communities must he the case, tue hand of Governmen: must be varously extended.-
 Sometimes it is wisely applied to the effective regua
 ton o some ot these interests, and sometimes It be-
 necessary tighten its pressure upon others
 Not only IS 1t mended lessen the restrictions ! which laws have so long imposed upon the mer-
 chant, in branch of the foreign trade, but
 IS also conceived that there articles entering n to the list of our imports the duties upon which it would be expedient to reduce Among these, it is 1 thought proper to mention Teas and Wines aS being l prominent.
 1 The use of Tea has become so general throughout
 the United States to rank almost necessary ot l life. When to this add, that there is rival pro-
 ducon at hoe to be by lessenng the amount
 ofits importation the duty upon may safely be regar
 ded too big h.. Upon some of the varieties of the
 article, it considerably exceeds hundred per cent
 and believed to be generally above the level winch
 true policy points out. moderate reduction of the 1 duty would lead to increased consumption of the
 arice, to extent that, in all probability, would, in
 the end, benefit rather than injure the revenue Its tendency would be to enlarge trade in exports to China. 1t would cause more of the trade of teas to
 centre in ports the present rate of duty drl
 wing our tea ships not unfequeny to seek their mar kets m Europe It would also serve to diminish the risk ot the United States ultimately losing any portion of trade valuable, through the policy and regu4a tions of other nations.
 The duty upon wines is also believed to be higher than wse, commercial, and national policy dictates. The experience Of our well as other countries
 has shown, that high duties upon wines do not prove benehcIB to the revenue. General experience also
 shows that the consumption of wine tends to diminish
 the of ardent spirits. These inducements for
 keeping the duties upon wines low. Theyare strength
 ened by the consideration, that by lowering them | shall increase benefciaiy trade to the countries whence we obtain wines. Some of these countries
 unable to take productions unless their wines
 be received as an equivalent They are, at the same time, prepared to take them untrammeed by positive
 virtual prohibitions. It seems but just that should
 take freely the productions of nations that take
 freely. But in point of fact, the present rates of
 tariff favor mos many and essential things, the pro-
 ductlons of nations that favor least. The of duty upon wines IS not only in many instances very high, but very unequal regards the different de-
 scriptlon of wines and the countries producing them.
 The whole ject thought to demand revision. Up- on the superior wines of France and those of the Rhine, upon those generally of Spain, Portugal, the
 Italian States, and perhaps other cosnries, the
 duties, it is believed, might be advantageousy brought down. The manufacture of wine in the United States
 does not at this uncture, comprehend any such large
 interest to nterpose serons objections to the policy recommended. The opinion may also be hazarded
 that proportion the taste for wines to pre-
 vail that for ardent splrs under the encourage
 ment of low duties upon those imported from abroad,
 will better basis be laid for the prosecution fu
 ture day of this branch of industry at home.
 few remarks upon the state of the trade between
 the United States and the British Colonies since the
 nerdicton put upon by Great Britain will close the more general observations of this report.
 Sufficient time has scarcely elapsed to enable to
 determine, with precision, the that this trade
 will ultimately take, regards the ofsupples,
 the channel through which they will chiefly pass and
 the proportions of American and British tonnage like y to be employed in their transportation. The Brit
 ish inerdict of July 1926, left interval before its
 actual operation, which did not commence until the
 first of Dec of that year. The interval it is under
 stood, was improved in accommodating in the British
 West India ports, supplies of provisions and other
 cessary articles from the United States Geographical
 causes, in their nature unchaDgeable render it mani lest that such supplies be the British Isl ! ands more abundance, and cheaper terms from
 the United States than from parts of the world more
 remote or from climates jess favourable to their pro-
 to its nvarable maxim of encouraging the industry of of oi1