The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-17
WHAT FOLLOWS PREFEREN-
TIAL TARIFFS.

and Canada was larger in the fiscal year
just ended than in any preceding year.
This is true both as to imports and ex-
ports. The figures of the years COM
merce presented by the department Of
commerce and labor through its bureau
of statistics, show that the imports from
Canada amounted to $54.660, 40 and the
exports to Canada, s12S,472.416 In this
term is included British Columbia, Gus
bee, Ontario. Nova Scotia and New
Brunswick.
OF the imports of the year, SO million
dollars, speaking in round terms, were
from Quebec and Ontario, 10 millions
from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia,
and millions from British Columbia
OF the exports no million dollars were
to Quebec and Ontario. 7 millions to
New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and 6
millions to British Columbia.
Both in imports and exports. the total
of the years commerce with Canada
was larger than in any preceding year
The imports never before reached 50
much as so million dollars save in one
exceptional year. 1881. when they barely
touched the so million line. In 1902 they
were S4S076, 124: in 1903 they were, as
already indicated, $54,660,410. The ex-
ports to Canada never reached so much
as 100 million dollars until 1901, when
they were los millions. In 1902 they were
100 millions, in 1908 as already stated,
they were $123, 472.41
! The Canadian tariff has given to the
products and manufactures of the Uni
ted Kingdom and most of her colonies
a reduction of 121k per cent in the tariff
rates since April, 1897, 25 per cent from
August, 1898, to July 1, 1900 and since
that date. a reduction of SO per cent.
Yet, it was during that period that the
most rapid growth in the exports from
the United States to Canada took place.
In the fiscal year ending June 80. 1897.
the exports from the United States to
Canada were 65 million dollars, yet they
have incr aased to 1913 million dollars in
1893 This is an increase of 80 per cent.
while the increase in the total exports
meantime has been about 40 per cent.
The Canadian tariff which gave lower
rates to the products of Great Britain
and her colonies, than to other countries,
was introduced in April, 1897, and pro-
vided that the tariff should at once be
lowered 1919 per cent on merchandise
from Great Britain and the colonies,
and that on July 1. 1898, the reduction
should be % per cent. This was put into
/ immediate operation. In 1900 the reduc-
ton was increased to 80 1-3 per cent 1t
| is proper therefore. to include the fiscal
year 1895 in any statement made for the
purpose of determining whether the re-
duction in the tariff on articles from
Great Britain and the colonies has had
a marked effect in increasing the i'm
ports from those parts of the world, or
reducing those from the United States.
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NEW VALUE IN PHILIPPINES.
Importations of pig tin into the United
States in the past year were larger than
in any preceding year. The statistics OF
the years imports as presented by the
department of Commerce and Labor
through its bureau of statistics. show
that the importations of tin were ss
million pounds, valued at more than 20
million dollars. In 1890 the importations
were 80 million pounds. valued at about
million dollars.
The rapid growth in the use of tin
in the United States. coupled with the
fact that practically none of that ar
ticle is produced in this country, sug-
gested the importation of tin in the
form of ore, and the smelling of the
ore and manufacture of the pig tin al
! home A plant for this purpose has
: been erected in the United States, and
the shipment of ore from the Malayar
/ Peninsula was about to begin, when the
2 department Of Commerce and Labor re-
ceived word through the United States
consul at Straits Settlements, that ar
export duty had been levied on ton ore
exported; the purpose of this export tax
on the ore being to prevent its exporta-
ton in the natural state, and to retair
for the people of the Malayan states the
/ profits of smelling.
Whether this will terminate the pro-
ject of importing the ore into the United
States for smelling cannot yet be told
The Malayan states now produce more
than half of the tin which enters int
, the commerce of the world, their tota
! shipments in 1901 being so Thousand
tons, out of a total of SO thousand ton!
entering the markets of the world il
that year. Next in Importance in thu
, tin product of the world after that O
! the Malayan states. is that of the Dutcl
East Indies, which marketed about 20,
: 900 tons in 1901. Bolivia about 10000 tons
. Australia about 1000 tons and Vale
: about 1000 tons. Whether the proposed
: smelters of the United States will b
able to obtain ore for their new work
9 elsewhere. now that the importation
!. from the Malayan states is PRACTICAL.
: prohibited by the new export duty, /
: not known.
Three-fourths of the worlds tin come
from parts of the world not far distan
from the Philippine Islands. and thi
!, fact coupled with the growing deman
= for tin in the United States. may lea
, to careful examination as to the posi-
e bility of tin production in the Philip
pines.
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