Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-02
NEWTRADE AGREEMENT
German Concessions in Favor
of American Products.
MINIMUM RATES ACCORDED
Nearly 81 Per Cent of Our Exports
Benefited.
MANY COMMODITIES EXCLUDED
But in These This Country Has Little
or No Export Trade With
Germany.
MANY COMMODITIES EXCLUDED

The Presidents proclamation regarding
the new trade arrangement with Germany,
made public yesterday. in its preamble re-
cites the fact that the German government
has entered into Il commercial agreement
with the United States under section 8 OF
the Dlngley act which the President re-
CARDS as securing reciprocal and equiva-
lent CONCESSIONS in favor of the products
of the United States. Therefore, he pre-
scrbes reduced duties upon the following
articles of German production entering the
United States:
ARGOS ) per cent ad valOrem; brandies.
81 ~ per gallon; champagne quarts. ST per
dozen; pnts, 81; half pints, $50; mag
NUNS 81 per dozen. and add S1.~ per gall
ion: still wines and vermuth, - cents per
gallon. in bottles. S1.25 per case of one
dozen; paintings, drawings and Statuary,
IL per cent ad valOrem.
The explanatory statement issued from
the department is. in effect demonstration
of the benefits secured by America under
the new arrangement. 1t is said that this
secures for American export trade the ben
eft of most of the present German con-
ventional rates. In evidence of this, the
statement enumerates these articles OF
American origin upon which the minimum
tariff rate is conceded by Germany by the
new agreement:
Accorded Minimum Rates.
Rye wheat. barley. oats. maize, sorghum
beans. linseed and hemp seed. flour except
OATS. walnuts and hazelnuts, fresh apples,
pears and ounces. fresh peaches and or
anges, dried apples. pears. apricots and
peaches sheep, hogs fresh. chilled or frozen
or prepared meat lard and greases. wine,
timed foods. preserved toma toes and olives.
lubricating oils benzine. glue and gelatin.
boots and shoes, wall paper. abrasive
stones, monographs, small arms. watches
and cases. organs and music boxes.
1t is stated that for the following articles
special reductions of from % to 30 per cent
have been secured below even the mini
mum tariff:
Timber, wood-pavng and for casks;
leather. saddlers and trunkmakers wares;
miscellaneous goods and harness: rubber
tubes. wares and coated textiles: many
kinds of paper goods; glass. plate. hollow
and sheet; engines, water steam and mis-
cPllaneouS machines; freight and motor
cars and motor cycles and carriages.
The statement shows that 96I per cent
of the total importations of American
products will continue to enjoy in Germany
the trea tment of the most-favored nation.
1t is admitted that considerable number
of commodities not included in the list
of reductions but it is stated that fortu-
nately in these the United States has little
or no export trade with Germany.
Advantage With This Country.
On the other hand, it is said: "The total
value of German goods that would partici-
pate in the benefit of this new agreement
amounted in 1906 to only S1.S61, 2S5. or
only IA per cent of our total importations
from Germany. Considering the respective
concessions from the viewpoint of the
amount of duties to be RENTED by either
government. the advantage is decidedly in
favor of the United States According to
German statistics the reduction of duties
ment would amount to Sc, 664 900 per an
mum, while, according to our statistics the
remission of federal revenue in ConSe-
quenCe of the confessional reductions in
favor of German goods would amount to
only sos, los per annum.'
Suitable regulations have been issued at
the Treasury Department to carry out the
agreement for the amendment of the Gus
toms regulations provided for in the agree
ment with Germany, upon which yester-
days proclamation is based. In brief,
these provide for the definition of market
value of export goods; for open hearings in
reappraisement cases; for considerable re-
Taxation of the conditions under which the
German exporter shall make his declara-
tons before American cOnsuls; for the ac-
crediting to the German government of the
United States treasury special agents in
Germany, and for their cooperation with
the German chambers of commerce, whose
appraisals shall be accepted as competent
evidence.
The State Department has also sent by
cable to all the American consuls in Ger
many full instructions for their guidance
in conformity with the proclamation issued
yesterday.