Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-06-14
PRICES FOR EXPORT.

Some Instructive Figures For the Domestic I
Consumer--How Protected Manufacturers
Compete With Foreigners In the Foreign I
Market by Undertaking Them, and at tho o
Same Time Keep Prices From Ten to o
Forty Per Cent. Higher In the Domestic !
Market.
Three or four men dining together at
club in New York one night fell to !
talking about an article of furniture
which one of them wished to buy. "Let
Blank here buy for export, and reshipit
to you from the wharf" suggested one
Of the party.
"How will that help me?" asked the
intending purchaser.
you'll get it at least 40 per cent. OIL
wholesale prices"
rs that true?" was asked Of the ex-
porter.
Thus appealed to the third man looked
little uncomfortable, and finally ad-
mitted that he had known such things
done. Protected manufacturers, he went
on to explain, have two wholesale prices
one to those who sell in this country;an-
other, and much lower one, to those who
export manufactured goods to foreign
countries. The exporter was bound to
admit that the practice Of buying 'for
export" and then selling the goods thus
purchased to favored friends in this
country was hardly fair, and was in
deed, something that honest exporters
did not like to do. On the other hand,
| however, the existence Of lower ex-
port price than the price to persons
dealing exclusively with the domestic
consumer was, to his mind, conclusive
evidence that the tariff, or something
else enabled manufacturers to sell their
product at home at prices much beyond |
what is needed to give fair profit. |
The whole subject has since been in
vestgated and below are given some of
the facts.
Two monthly publications in New
York, the American Mail and Ex-
port journal and the Australasian
and South American, are devoted
to the export trade. They are not
permitted to circulate in this coun-
try, and when inquiries were made
at the offices of publication as to the
reason of this, the frank answer was that
D the prices quoted for export in the case
! of many articles of American production
were considerably below the wholesale
rate of those articles to the domestic
0 dealer. Discount to the export trade
d only" is a common phase in the Engi-
E neering and Mining Journal, which pub
= fishes monthly price current One of
, these publications exhorts the foreign
I buyer to compare the prices for export of
e American goods with the European prices
{ on similar products. 1t must be borne
Is in mind that these very foreign goods
d referred to are products against which
e the American manufacturer demands
q protection at the hands of Congress-
:, Says the Australasan and South Amer
Ia ican
ID at Is a mistake to suppose that our goods
a are much dearer as rule, than those sup
10 piled by other countries AS a matter of
fact they are often cheaper, without taking
{. their superior qualities into consideration,
er tn being the case particularly with the
40 articles on which Chill has undertaken to
,, | reduce the duty.
~ "Nor are we under very serious disad
vantages when the question of transporta.
IN tion arises. There are nearly always ships
-, loading in New York and Boston for ports
20 20 on the west coast of South America, and the
a. rates of freight obtained make the shipping
business paying one, so that any number
"A of vessels required would be quickly put on.
" "As it is, we are supplying the bu k of the
!, railroad supplies and equipment used In
W. Chilli and an equally large proportion of the
telegraph plant. our sewing machine 3
w. printing machinery, mining machinery
~ wood and metal working tools and agricu t
~, a, | ural implements, light hardware, woodward
III e C.. are popular and selling well, although
n' we could very materially increase our trad,
90 in these lines by IA more careful regard TO
what the buyers require. The approaching
'of exhibition of mill machinery should open NJ
Va. an exceedingly profitable trade with tn
cu United states, if our manufacturers woult
81 only take the trouble to secure proper rep
ny resentation, for it is unquestionaby held a
ah much for the purpose of attracting American
III, exhibitors as for any thing else. We hav
'ht ncrcas our trade with chill for the pas
anu two months 100 per cent, AS compared wit
by the same period last year, and we can kec
M tn rate of increase up without trouble,
ng we only. try to supply Chilan buyers wit
wa Jus. what they want, in place of endcayorin
ere to make them take what We have to sci
ich The preliminary work has been successful
completed, but we must exercise some judl
A m,nt in reaping the harvest"
ons Plows, harrows, cultivators, see
,ns sas drills corn planters, road scraper
use rollers, moving machines, horse rake
corn shelters (both hand and power
oin' grinding mills, corn and cob mills (ru
'tr by steam power and by hand), cider an
,or, wine presses, root graters, hay and fec
can cutters. grain separators, tanning mill
the horse powers (snaps and tread, farm e,
laid gines. churns, wheel-barrows, and
pll, all classes of machines in use by OF
farmers are sold for export at pric
,ma, much below the rate to wholesale dea
,ort ers at home. One manufacturer say
rom "Our prices to the domestic trade ave
nam age about 10 per cent. more than to Il
ooN export trade. We box and deliver
iers, New York all our export goods; domest
Mr. goods are quoted on cars here" This
a,n a,ns a fair sample of the policy as to all t
The articles named in the above list.
las, Cultivators enjoy protective duty
the Al per cent. Here is short list
an prices that ought to interest the Am,
: -, lean farmer:
., In Home To +,
ps Market" egne
y 'ue Wheel hoe, cultivator rake
-. and rlow. w.......,.s.,........sl .sllOJ
n'oV All steel horse hoe and cul.
~. tivator, with whcel....,.... 500
'uo' ,,, All steel, plain cultivator,
with Wheel. ........,.,,. 40
The above prices to the exporters
we'll as for sale here are for sin
ID TO articles. For export the cultivators
abor delivered "free on board" ship at n
York. They are sold in all the mark
are of the world, and catalogues describ
cNer their merits are printed in Engli
Spanish, German, French and POI
neht gUeSe,
II OF Horse rakes, tedders and potato
"tIe u, gers are protected by duty OF As
NV cent. Here are contrasted quotati
Az for home foreign market those for
,,hnr home market applying to large consi
d of ments only, those for the foreign mar
last to single articles:
very M..not" o"e rie 40
Lock Liver Hay Rakes. ..sl5,o) SAP
SUM Self.Dump Hay Rakes... $500 III
Hay Tedder.,..,,,,.,,... bVo 2o.2
MUIR Potato Dig ser....,...,.. SW nj
-. o,,a,iall,, In ha Vapt