Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1906-10-31
EXPORT DISCOUNTS.
GOODS SOLD CHEAPER ABROAD
THAN AT HOME.
Only spout One Three-Thousandeth of
Our Total Production of Manu-
featured Goods to Send For
egners at Lower Than
Current Prices in
America.

rejection Of stalwart protectionist
as representative in Congress. be-
cause. said he, Illinois is equally in
terested with Maine in maintaining
protection.
In Maine Secretary Taft declared
that there was urgent need of revising
the abuses out of the Dingley tariff
He did not say what these abuses are,
bat presumably his reason for demand
ing immediate revision is to be found
in the fact that a few American ex-
ports are sold abroad AT lower prices
than at home.
Wherefrom a doubt must have
arisen as 10 the real attitude of the
administration. with the\ weight of
probability on the urgent revision side,
for the urgent revisionist was natural
~ assumed to be volcing the views OF
the heat OF the official family. Such
an inference would be quite certain
to prove unfortunate for the Repub-
lican cause.
In North Carolina Secretary Shaw
was demonstrating the entirely sound
proposition that tariff reduction was
y
small quantity of domestic manufac-
lures exported at lower than home
prices, this being in his judgment.
much better than to reduce our tariff
so as TO enable foreigners to food our
market with their cutpriced exports.
Again divided counsels. If Secre-
tary Taft was in harmony with the ad-
ministrauCn, then Secretary Shaw is
al variance with the administration. If
Mr.. Taft was right in urging immedi-
ate tariff revision downward in order
to check me evil of selling abroad
each year few millions worth of our
manufactures at less than domestic
prices, then Mr.. Shaw is wrong in de
Tending the practice which keeps
American mills and factories running
full time all the year round and keeps
American labor employed without a
break either in time or in wages. Both
cannot be right; or at least. both can
not be in full harmony with the ad-
ministration.
Secretary Taft evidently agrees with
Cummings, Foss and the general body
OF tariff reformers that to work off an
at bargain counter rates is a grave
crime whose preparation should be
prevented by an immediate lowering
of our tariff rates. Secretary Shaw
finds the practice a common one with
every producing nation in the world.
but least prevalent in the United
States in it's proportion to the total
volume Of production He does not
regard it as crime, nor even a mis-
demeanOr calling for tariff reduction
as a punishment and preventive.
He is disposed TO look upon export
discounts as expressly lesalized by our
system of drawbacks. whereunder the
treasury department rebates back to
the producer the tariff duties that have
been paid upon articles or materials
which enter into products sold abroad
This provision for export discounts is
not exclusively confined to the Dingley
tariff Similar rebating provision was
contained in the Wilson German tariff
law of 1894; also in the Mckinley tar
If of 1890.
Secretary Taft evidently considers it
outrageous that the American con
sumer should once in great while
pay Htile higher price for an article
than some foreigners may have paid
Tor II. This does not seem to be
very Migrant outrage when we consid-
er Una, OUT Oh d lotal manufactured
production of $15,000,00O, 900 we sell
abroad at cut prices rather less than
$1,000 GOO worth-that is. about
- nnfh of
I'''Vo0'n Oh me total ne general
mass oi ouf consumers are not grlev-
Uu''E "Iohscu III this ratio OF one to
l'''ee 'i"i'"Iiu. ! el Ut Is almost wholly
o vi , av'ol'' % inns one uoI'ar worth IN
9''0o' worm Una, MeSSrs, ant Gum
INNS, r o7S. ana 'ne rest OF me reform
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