Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1905-09-25
NEW TARIFF RATES
Effect of RuSSia'S More
Friendly Attitude
American Trade Will be Benefited but
Adverse Regulations Were Never
Seriously Obstructive.

Washington, Sept. Especially
The recent announcement that the
Russian government has ordered that
the levying of discriminating import
duties on a number of articles, the
products of the United States be dis
continued. lends some interest to the
figures below, presented by the depar--
ment of commerce and labor through
its bureau of Statistics, showing the
total imports into Russia from the
United States during the calendar
years 19OO-19O4. inclusive, as we'll as
the imports during the period 1900
1903 into Russia from the United States
of the articles affected by the adverse
tariff legislation.
The application of the higher dis
eliminating rates dates back to the
beginning of the year 1901, when, in
retaliation of the countervailing duty
imposed upon sugar of Russia origin
in accordance with section of the
Dingley tariff, the Russian minister of
finance ordered the application of the
penal tariff rates TO imports of man
ufactures of cast iron. of hand tools,
machinery. and numerous other articles
classed under the general head Of man
ufactureS of iron and steel. These ar
ticles, which We're subject until then
to the same conventional rates as were
paid by like articles coming from Ger
many and other European countries,
/ became subject to rates from 80 to SO
per cent higher.
In May of the same year an order
of the Russian minister of finance
raised the rates on white rosin, pine
pitch and brewers pitch by 90 per cent
and that on velocipedes by so per cent
which higher rates have prevailed
since.
/ In order to be able to determine the
origin of the articles affected, the Rus
sian government also ordered the pre-
sentation of certificates of origin in
case the goods bore no trademarks OF
i other proofs OF their real origin.
{ 1t is interesting to note that the to-
tai imports into Russia from the Unit
ed States. as shown by the official trade
returns of the Russian government
snow but little the effects Of the ad-
j verse tariff legislation. Thus the tota
imports from this country are stated
by the Russian returns as follows:
1900 $22,74S.0OO; 1901. $17.9S4,0 900;
1902. $2O,574, 900: 1908. $32,5S1, 900
! Preliminary figures for the year 1904
showing the imports from the United
States into Russia over the European
frontier only. are So, 10000. The cor
J responding figures of the bureau Oi
statistics, showing the total exports
from this country TO Russia during the
Esame calendar years, are as follows:
1900 SS.664 27O; 1901, $7.2O7.995; 1902
S13.S35. .953; 1908, 1S,994,54S; 1904, ST.
S23.S56.
While the figures of the two goven-
ments. measuring the same trade
movement for the same period, show
wide discrepancies, neither of then
disclose any serious effect of the abov'
4named determinations upon the growth
( of the general trade movement. Tn
main reason for this phenomenon i
that the bulk of imports into Russis
from the United States is made up o
raw cotton. the imports of which from
this country for the years in question
appears to have-been az follows:
1900. S1S,417,0O0; 1901, 12,467, 900
1902. $13.595,OOO, 1908, $24,SSS, 900, 1904
1924. 900.
By comparing the values of the cot
ton imports with those of the total i'm
ports into Russia from this country. i
is seen that the larger or smaller siZ
of the total import figures for the re
ispective years depends mainly upon tn
magnitude of the figures showing tn
cotton imports from the United State
during the same periods.