The age-herald., 1901-12-20
RECIPROCITY IS
 AMERICA 5 NED Commerce Committee of Pan- American Congress Reports ALL DIFFERENCES SETTLED Members Say Republics Should Grant Concessions to Each Other and
 It Would Work to the
 Interest of All.
ALL DIFFERENCES SETTLED

Mexico. December 1s.-The committee on commerce and reciprocity of the Pan- American Congress has agreed supstan- tially on their report which has been pre- pared by Pablo Macedo of the Mexican delegation. The report covers "ioe ground
 Tn beginning some difference of opinion was shown with regard to the subject or reciprocity. but 1t Is understood that the conclusions reached are supported oy all the members. On this subject the commit tee lays special stress on the economic system of the different governments as based upon their necessities ana recos- nizes that many of the American repuD- lies which up to this time have largely exported their raw materials and im- ported manufactured articles are now through the growing development or tner domestic industries, tending more 10 utii- izing their own natural products ana oi- minishing proportionately the importation of foreign commodities.
 Commercial Reciprocity.
 Special attention is given to commercial reciprocity among the republics or the American continent and the opinion is ex- pressed that careful and tranquil ln- vestigation by the different governments will demonstrate that they can make mutual concessions which, with the reel procal advantages derived from traffic among themselves, will stimulate the de- velopment of their natural products ana of their native industries to the point or compensating for any pecuniary sacrince which such concessions in the beginning may seem to impose. In support or this view are cited freedom of exchange and the benefits which have been enjoyed through the reciprocity agreements which prevail among the five republics or Central America.
 The committee states that it finds some difficulty in giving concrete form to these ideas unless it is willing to follow the vague formulas of the Washington con ference of 1890, and this 1t is not ready to do. It gives its adhesion to the mak- ing of treaties of commercial reciprocity as a fundamental principle of Pan-Amer- icanism and as in harmony with the spirit of the age, with the suggestion that these should be based on careful study of the interests of the different repub- lies which establish such treaties in manner that advantages which may be conceded shall be mutual and stable and in permanent way facilitate interna- tional traffic. st-.
 Technical Customs Congress.
 The committee, among its resolutions, recommends that within a year tech nical customs congress be held in New York composed of delegates named by the different governments who are skill ed in the technical knowledge and prac- tice of tariff administration When the delegates have been named through the medium of the International Bureau of American Republics, the congress shall organize and shall consider various sub- jects. among which are uniformity of rules for the entrance and discharge Of cargoes and the clearing of vessels en- gagged in international commerce.; uni formity and simplification of customs house forms. etc.
 The committee also includes in its rec concentrations that the customs congress give its attention to the means for adop- ton and enforcement of a common com mercial nomenclature. This project was presented by w. I. Buchanan of the United States delegation, who has given the subject much attention.