Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1907-01-03
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EXPORT DISCOUNTS.
A COMMON PRACT TlCE IN FREE TRADE
GREAT BRITAIN.

Products of Industry In the United
Kingdom Are Sold Abroad mt Prices
Much Lower Than Those Paid by
British Consumers.
1t has been a favorite boast of the
Englishman that owing to Great Brit
aims system of free trade he could buy
the products OF British industry in his
own country for less than those prod
ucts were sold for anywhere else in
the world lie claimed that the opera
ton of free trade was to make his
home market the cheapest for the out
put of his domestic industry.
1t is no longer possible, if indeed it
were ever possible, to make this boast
truthfully. The manufacturer In free
trade England makes one price to his
customers at home and dumps his sur
plus output upon foreign markets at
lower prices. In the one great country
in the world without protective GUS
toms duties there are to be found two
prices for the products of domestic
manufacture, the higher for the home
consumer, the lower for the foreign
purchaser,
Ihe truth Of this statement is proved
beyond question by evidence gathered
from Il variety of trustworthy and in
dependent sources of information In
the United Kingdom Some of that In
formation is here presented. The con-
dition that confronts the manufacturer
in free trade England Is we'll summed
up Ia the words of the chairman of
one of the principal electrical compa-
MES in Great Britain "An anxious
seller takes the best price he can get
British sellers nowadays are usually
anxious sellers.
Without protective market at home
for their product, they have to face
great and growing competition in other
markets. The best prices these anxious
sellers can get in colonies and in for
eiSn countries are often less than they
charge at their factory doors. Very
CttCl, IL 10 u uc, tHc! stl tilSIl SDoNE
at the same prices whatever the mar
ket Put very often they do not. Thus
under free trade there has been deyel-
oped a system of dumping upon for
eign markets goods made IN England
ut lower rates than the prices for home
consumption
at II fr az "a
Take as the first of these one afforded
by the British Westinghouse company.
Il highly important manufacturing or
ganiaatiou 1t is the admitted custom
of that company 10 mark down prices
for all export quotations, and the same
practice is common throughout the elec-
trictl trades. This practice has great
ly Increased of late because of the Ell
largement of plants in England seek
ing orders This development of plant,
because of larger supply. doubtless
fail. whether for the home or the for
eign market But one of the Target
of these electrical manufacturers az
thorizes the positive STA cement that tie
fail was greater in the prices for sal
abroad than in prices for the home
market
This same manufacturer cites an Il
lnstration from his own experience. He
took a heavy order from the Transvaal
for electrical mining equipment 70
Sil5,000 against American competition
The result of this sale was IL practical
loss, but it helped to keep his works
going Nevertheless this is the
important point to bear in mind-this
manufacturer declares that he would
not have accepted such a price for a
similar order at home Yet his estab-
lishment is in free trade England. The
simple explanation Is that In the stress
of competition and under the necessity