New-York tribune., 1901-08-23
MEATS
Among The new rates are the following:


s 81 600 q 5e7aIs 81 5 SANE more han ooo 5-
Wscbine ois for working metals wood or stone steam
hydraulic presses welding machines mechanical
as1 kilograms 81 $. 70 5000 kilograms 81 90; 10000
kilograms s. :: over 10 v'g ElogzAs & - = ems s ,
power hammers ice machinery. etc range from rate Of
ss - er 100 kilograms for machines weighing than
Kilograms 70 s. : for machines between one ard
kiosTams machines weighing more than 100 tons
Tses!sphic telsphonss s:setries! light
lnr E an l5stg,,E3ents ggBe e- sI4 as
Motor railway and street cars 81 3s
Freight cars open ard covered. 81 -.
cars upholstered, 81 7s. upholstered.
Lsssher shoes weighing than 2ls pounds Per pair,
per leo KILOGRAMS. $50 2. CO.,
s2ss s. Fs2s .as uss s5 s5 Sc s?PSi &c. P sE P 90
CHIEF ADVANCE on FOOD PRODUCTS.
Il viii be seen from the foregoing that by far
the principal and more important advances are in
fcod materials notably cereals meats and live
animals. The increase in the present treaty rate
OF cents 10 81 81 in the duty wheat viii affect
most directly the United States. Argentina and
Russia. which countries exported 10 Germany in
1900 4s5 ss3, e7ss2s and Z7Slg metric OF wheat
respectively.
The advance rye will affect principally Russia.
which sold Germany last year s34 327 tons OF that
cereal, against 1906 from the United States.
Cxen hogs ard poultry come mainly from Austria
Hungary and Russia. and both those countries il
may be safely assumed viii negotiate treaties with
Germany which. under the tariff, Will reduce
the duties all these products Of Austrian and
Russian origin 10 the minimum rates permitted by
the new statute.
In respect 70 American nanufa ctUres the most
notable advances made by the present bill in
ire rates on shoes and bicycles and these have
b. en- granted in difference 70 loud, long and I'm
passioned appeals from German manufacturers
who have professed 10 find the ruin OF their indus
tries in American competition The increase OF the
import duty bicycles and finished parts thereof
70 sS5 70 per 100 Kilograms viii that Ameri-
bicycle weighing approximately % pounds will
pay S 81 import duty, instead OF about 81 % as
heretofore. This viii exclude cheap, low grade
wheels. but not good ones. Shoes which row pay
from 70 70 Is cents pair. according 10 weight.
viii under the new schedule pay approximately
double those rates; but one viii expect that the
now firmly established and growing American shoe
trade il Germany will be destroyed seriously
impaired by an import duty OF 25 cents pair.
BURDEN on GERMAN woRKMEN
Public discussion OF the measure is for the mo-
rnent confined mainly 10 two points-the alleged in
adequacy Of the proposed duties on manufactured
products, which. as usual are far from satisfying
the demands Of interested parties: second, and
principally, the effect that the heavy advances
n the duties food materials will have on the
hon-agr1cultural population OF Germany. The
suung burden that would be laid the dweers
N cites and laborers in factories. railways and
mines VIII De readily apparent. From the year
DOCK Of 1850 y appears that the import duties paid
On On Ten leading classes Of food materials includ-
- wheat rye, barley. oats. cattle. hogs, meats
utter cheese and eggs s2s, l6S5. Assuming
,Iolnutul as those Of year ago. and that no
sel imported supplies viii be needed. il is easily