The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-06-26
Prices FOR EXPORT.

PRICES FOR EXPORT.
S0sss Instructive Figures For the Domestic
COnaumer-HOw Protected Manufacturers
Compete with Foreigners In the Foreign
Market ny Undertaking Them. and 1t the
6am0 Tsme Keep Prices From Ten to
Forty Per Cent. Higher In the Domestic
Market.
Three or four men dining together ct
. club in New York one night fell to
talking about an art Gle Of furniture
which one Of them wished to buy. LET
2lank here buy for export, and reshipit
. 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 of
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-
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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
ves.igated 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 we're made
1t the Offices Of publication as to the
rea8on Of this, the frank answer was that
the prices quoted for export in the case
Ofnlany articles OF American production
were considerably below the wholesale
rate OF those articles to the domestic
dealer. Discount to the export trade
only" is q common phase in the Engi-
neering and Mining Journal, which pub
fishes monthly price current One Of
fhnoa ~, h1i0o fin0c owhnr%c tho fnroinn
buyer to compare the prices for export Of
American goods with the European prices
on similar products 1t must be borne
in mind that these very foreign goods
referred to are products against which
| the American manufacturer demands
protection at the hands Of Congress-.
Says the Australasian and South Amer
| ican:
1T Is "A mistake (, suppose that our goods
are much dcarer, as a rule, than those sup
/ piled by other countries AZ q matter Of
| fact they are fen cheaper, without taking
their superior qualities INTO consideration,
tn ing the ca.e particularly with the
articles on which Chill has undertaken to
reduce the duty.
Nor are we under very serious disad
vantages when the question Of transporta-
! tiOn ar.se-. There are nearly always ships
IOlulDk III New 1OTk A'tu bDStOn Tor DOrIB
on the west coast Of soutn America, and the
| rates OF freight obtained make the shipping
4 business paying one, 50 hat any number
Of vessels require would be quickly put on.
"As il is, we are supplying the bn of the
railroad supplies and equipment used In
/ Chilli. and an equally large proportion Of the
/ telegraph plant. Our sewing mach,n. Q,
| printing machinery. mining machinery,
/, wood and metal wo. king tools and agricu T.
ural implements. light hardware, woodward,
| Q C.. are popular and selling well. although
| We could very IN ,teria ~ increase our trade
| In these lines by q more careful regard for
! what the buyers require. The approaching
| exhibition of mill machinery should open up
an exceedingly profitable trade with the
United states, II our manufacturers would
! only take the trouble to secure proper rep
resentation, for II Is unqu. stionably held as
much for the purpose of attracting American
exhibitors AS for any thing else. We have
increas our trade with 1hil ,r the past
I two months 100 per cent. rs compared with
the same period last year, and we can keep
/ tn rate Of increase up without trouble. II
we only try to supply chi,ian buyers with
just what they want, In place of endeavorina
{, make them take what we have to sell
The preliminary work has been successfully
completed, but we must exercise some iudg
m. mt in reaping the harvest
I PlOws, harrows, cultivators, seed
drills, corn planters. road scrapers
rollers, moving machines, horse rakes
corn shelters (both hand and power)
!! grinding mills, corn and cob mills (rur
by steam power and by HANDY, cider and
wine presses, root graters, hay and feed
cutters, grain separators. tanning m, lis
horse powers (snaps and tread), farm en-
, gines, churns, wheel-barrows, and il
all classes Of mach mes in use by oul
farmers are sold for export at price,
much below the rate to wholesale deal
ers at home. One manufacturer says
Our prices to the domestic trade aver
age about 10 per cent. more than to tn,
export trade. We box and deliver ii
New York all our export goods; domesti,
goods are quoted on cars here" This il
fair sample of the policy as to all tn,
articles named in the above list.
Cultivators enjoy protective duty o
45 per cent. Here is short list o
prices that ought to interest the Amer
! In Home To For
Market" eiRncrs
Wheel hoe, cnltivator rake
and plOw. .$ll.0o $64
All steel horse hoe aud cul-
tivatOr, with VIII. el. ........ 500 67
All steel. PLAN cultivator,
with Wheel. ......+....... 40 "a
The above prices to the exporters q
well az for sale here are for singh
articles. For export the cultivators ar
delivered free on board" ship at Ne,
York. They are sold in all the market
of the world, and catalogues describin,
their merits are printed in English
Spanish, German, French and Portu
guese.
Horse rakes, tedders and potato dig
gers arc protected by duty OF IS pc
cent. Here are contrasted quotation
for home foreign market, those for tn
home market applying to large consign
ments only, those for the foreign marke
to single articles:
l In .Home To
Market" Foreigner,
Lock LIVER Hay Rakes $l5.0l $ls.2l