The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-12-12

REUWUUCrY rRUIrIUs


city treaties and agreements of the
United states for the past nifty years.
Iu view of the coming struggle i'm the
Senate over the ratification of the new
reciprocity treaties, it is well to refresh
ones memory as t1 what has occurred
iu the past SO that the arguments OF
the present may bee the better under
stood
The list of reciprocity agreements
since 1850 consists of:
OD An agreement made with Canada
which operated from 1854 to 1866 under
which the United States admitted free
of duty from Canada breadstuffs. pro-
visions, live animals. fruits, poultry
hides, skins and fuys. ores and metals.
timber and lumber cotton flax and
hemp and manufactured tobacco;
Canada also admitting the same articles
from the United States free of duty
90 An agreement with the Hawaiian
Islands existed from 1876 to 1900 by
which the United states admitted free
of duty sugar and molasses and other
tropical products Of those Islands, and
they admitted free Of duty breadstuffs,
provisions and general merchandise
from the United States.
go The treaties made in 1912 under
the act Of 1890 with Brazil; Spain, for
cuba and Porto Rico; United Kingdom
for the British West Indies and British
Guiana; Dominican Republic Salvador.
Nicaragua and Guatemala in Central
America; and Germany, France and
Austria Hungary. Under these the
United States agreed to admit free Of
duty sugar molasses. coffee and hides
from the countries mentioned, and in
exchange for that privilege those coun-
tries agreed to the following concessions
ON goods from the United States; Bra
iii the free admission of wheat, flour,
corn and oats, meal, starch, vegetables,
hay, pork, except hams, fish, cottonseed
oil coal, naval stores, agricultural i'm
plements, manufacturing and mechanic
cal tools, engines, mining machinery
and material for railway construction
and equipment, also a % per cent re-
duction in the duty on lard, hams, but
ter, cheese, preserved meats, fruits and
vegetables, cotton manufactures, iron
anu blttl manufactures lulIlDtIt UNI
Der, wood manufactures, wagons and
carriages and manufactures of rubber
With Spain. for the admission into cuba
and Porto Rico of the following articles
free of duty: Meats, fish, wood for COO
perage and building wagons, carts, cars
for railways, sewing machines, manu-
features of iron and steel, oats and for
and nuTnerong other articles also a
reduced rate Of duty an wheat, -four and
many manufactured articles. With the
United Kingdom, for the British West
Indies, an agreement similar to that
above named with reference to Cuba
and Porto Rico Similar agreements
with Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala,
Salvador and the Dominican Republic.
With Germany. the free admission Of
the following articles from the United
States: Bran, flax, feathers, hides and
skins, tan bark also a large list Of ar
ticles at a reduced rate of duty. With
Austria Hungary, an agreement sim
liar to that with Germany.
% Agreement made IN 1898, under the
act of 1897 with France by which the
United States reduces the rate of duty
on tartar, brandies, stil wines and
paintings and France extends it's mini
mum tariff rates to canned and prepar-
ed meats, also fruits, hops, timber and
lumber in the United States. Similar
agreements were also made in 1900 with
Germany, Portugal and Italy All of the
recent agreements with France, Ger
many, Portugal and Italy are now in
existence.
OF the pending treaties which will
come up for ratification two classes
may be made in those whose provisions
have been announced and those whose
provisions are still under the seal of
secrecy. In the first class are: % The
reduction of 121a per cent duty on SUI
gar, molasses, fruits and asphalt from
the British West Indies and Guiana,
and the removal or reduction of the
duty on a large list of agricultural pro-
ducts and manufactures entering those
colonies from the United States. C2)
A reduction of 20 per cent. in the duty
on sugar, hides and certain grades of
wool from Argentina entering the
United States, and reduction in the
Argentine duty duty in a large list of
foodstuffs and manufactures from the
United States. go "A reduction of from
to 20 per cent" on certain manufac-
lures entering the United States from
France and the application of the mi
nimum tariff Of France to most of the
articles entering that country from the
United States.
In the second class, that is where the
provisions have not yet been made pub
lie, are treaties with Nicaragua Ecua-
dor, the Danish West Indies and the
Dominican Republic. Bnt il Ii probable
that the Danish West Indies will be-
come a part of the United states by
purchase. Denmark has been anxious