Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-10-02
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\ 4, i'Spetsbis gsS,,a s>iy Which an,,. ma,
Many Manufsctur-r- Need 30 Pro..c-
tica. -
IN response to inquiries addressed &c
manufacturers by the house. commit.
lee on WAYS and mcaps eonccrnity tho
eNnediency Of nakipg agreements with
foreign countries for reciprocal trade.
many interesting statements have been
received in Washington. We direct at
tention to brief extracts from some Of
them rs bearing upon the question
whether certain Industries need TO be
protected in their home market by tar.
III duties designed to prevent the i'm.
p,r,ation of forei-a goods like ,hosc
which they produce. We take the fol.
lowing from the iron Ages reports of
the responses relating to branches of
the iron and steel industry:
Disston &c Sons, saws. files, etc:
value OF annual product. So, 5OO, ON
On foreign trade is - per cent. of our
total business. Our output is 20 per
cent greater than six years ago"
H. t. Nail Co., wire nails: "IIave ex.
r>-'ed through agents in New Yorltj
'a now e ilnpcte with any quality and
ptice with foreigners"
Baldwin locomotive works: I'VE
compete with foreign manufacturers
In quality and price, our locomotives
being preferred in some countries
Nicholson File Co: Market both
st home aud abroad. In all foreign
cotfutrles wc meet competition from
English files. and from German files i'm
many countries. We should be very
much assisted by an increase in QUE
own tariff"
Filler IL Stoweli Co., steam engines
and sawmill machinery: Ten per
cent. of our product goes abroad, sold
direct
4. II. Ftrquhar Co.. agricultural
indictments, engines and III ic!incry:
ABOUT onc-,hirt OF our product goes
abroad, sometimes one-half."
Chattunoo "a Plow Co.: "About one
fifih of our market is foreign, aud we
sell direct alto rethcr"
Moline Plow Co: Oar annual out
put is S2.0)O.0l0. Five to ten per cent
of il goes abroad"
Johnston Harvester Co, harvesting
machinery and agricultural imple-
rents@ Our ira ,e extends to all ma
tions of Europe"
Miller Lock Co: about 90 per cent.
OF our product goes abroad. If ~
per cent OF American locks could be
exported ut lowest HON, prices, our
1actorieS could run full ut fair profits
American prices of locks are NV enough
in cost TO compctc abroad. We lack
facilitius for exports"
A manufacturer in this country who
regularly sell, his goods abroad, thus
meeting and overcoming the compete
n f.,r , ct,
own Countries, needs no tar.ff protec.
tion whatever 10 give him an ndvan-
tnyc over these same foreign manu-.
fac;nrers here in his own home mar
k"t. For example, our manufacturers
of nails, who were able to sell ri, O0n
600 mounds of their products last wear
in Europe and ether foreign lands.
thus overcoming there tn. COMPETE
ton OF foreign nailmakers, without
fhe aid of a tariff d florence and under
inc disadvantages of transatlantic
freight charges, can much IN IRE easily
uniersell the foreign nailmakcrs here
In The United States, with no Amcri-
can tariff whatever on forci IN nails.
The imperative duty on nails is %
per cent.
Our leading manufacturers of saws
say, as quoted above. that they sell
one-hfth of their product abroad. But
the tariff is % per cent. for circular
saws and from six TO ten cents per
foot for other kinds These rates are.
OF course, practically prohibitory, and
no part of them is needed for protec-
ton. But the republican party pro-
poses to increase them. and the manu-.
facturers, we understand, would like
to have them increased. a prominent
ME company admits TINT it sells goods
abroad and meets competition" in
many foreign countries. Yet il. saws
Shat it would be very much assisted
by an increase in our own tariff"
which is now g. % per cent!
Everybody knows that for years
large quantities Of agricultural imple-
ments and machinery have been ex-
ported from this country and sold
abroad. The extracts quoted above
point to this fact But when it was
proposed that the duties on these i'm.
plements should be removed. the re-
publicans declared that the repeal of
them would ruin the American manu-
facturers. The duties were cut off IA
year and half ago-eYeept with re-
spect to imports from countries where
similar Duties are in force-and the
Hanuf icturers are still not only sup
plying the domestic demand, but also
making large sales abroad. Our en-
port trade should be fostered and de-
veioped by wise and equitable legisla-
ton, bus manufacturers who sell large
Quantities of goods for export must
not expect that the bearing of such n
erade movement upon protective tart #
duties will be overlooked.-N. Y.
Times.
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