The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-05-21
GF[CT OF TARIFF DUTIES.
.~,wANY IRRITATED At GROWTH
OF AMERICAN TRADE.
..,.hstag May he Called on to Adopt
s,mflar PoIicy-Advanced Think
.,s Hope for Commercial Treaty
Detween Germany and America.

WARRINGTON, May 20.-Under cover
= an annual report on the trade rela-
800 Of Germany. Consul General Ma
~ at Berlin, has published in the vol
~. ~ commercial relations, issued from
- ~ bureau of foreign commerce, state
..r.rtmept. some exceedingly important
s,sements relative to the present con-
H.,ons governing trade between Germany
"A the United States. Still more impor-
-, are the predictions made by Mr.
sason as to the treatment Germany has
Z store for United States trade at COM
n.,,,,ve points hereafter and his warn
r.. 10 Americans of the German pur-
80 10 demand far higher duties on i'm
srts especially against the United
yates products.
American Gain I'm Trade.
Mr. Mason says that Germany
h.s been paralyzed at the enor-
rous upward bounds OF the foreign trade
\ the United States and as German
rarchants have come to the conclusion
.sst this prosperity Is attributable en-
.,rsly 10 the United States tariff laws
"a arguing that a similar policy could
~ fall TO benefit Germany, they pro-
zoo a revision of their tariff on the line
= general and heavy increase of duties,
s.pecially upon imports from the United
states.
German Press Irritated.
Mr. Mason has much TO say about the
ssadIly growing irritation exhibited by
M German press against the United
GATES and the criticisms Of the trade
napers Of our customs officers, who are
charged with practicing chicanery in
,he.r efforts to prevent under valuation
Il German exports to tn United States.
citing as agents for the sale of American
n English goods and conditions are being
imposed to discourage the taking OF for
I'm pupils in German technical schools.
German Trade In the East.
He treats also OF the great growth in the
German trade in the East, resulting in
The new policy of the government and
IT. determination to obtain share of
What the far-sishted statesman recog-
nised as the chief commercial prize of
The twentieth century-the trade of
China German trade with China has
Increased 70 per cent. in the last four
years and German capital Is being In
rested with an audacity which should
sand as an example to Americans seek
Ine foreign trade, In conclusion and re-
curing TO the subject of relations be-
tween the United States and Germany In
he future, Mr.. Mason has this to say:
Heavy Balance of Trade.
There IL therefore every possibility
that the new tariff and such amended
special treaties as Germany may con-
sent to enact will modify the commercial
relations Of the empire with other ma
IONS particularly with the United States.
Il Is not TO be denied or overlooked that
while the attitude of the imperial gov
eminent toward our country has been
Uniformly correct there is. In certain
business circles here, a feeling of enmity
and resentment which did not exist prior
to i@s The heavy balance of trade
which the United States now holds
seainst the fatherland, the decline In tex
tie exports and the sharpened customs
regulations against under valuations, the