The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-23
NEW TARIFF LAW NOT
ALL SATISFACTORY
American Oil Exporters Are
Alarmed in Great Decrease
i'm Amount of Trade.

%aSfMST;2S Sroe from Doc to IN n sy
s59 G e*pnrs p e Frsnfs Sas in S.rO month
movement to induce congress TO renew
with the French government the reoi-
81 O' Exporters @ also ' hoSe pioq for the the renewal
Of the treaty with Spain, large i'm
porter OF American oil. which VIII ex-
pire on August 81 1910
Exports TO Canada under the opera
ton of the new tariff law have not been
compiled by the bureau of statistics OF
the department of commerce and labor,
| but indications arc that they Will show
relatively as great a falling of In oil
exports as those TO France
Notwithstanding the abrogatlon OF the
| reciprocity treaty with France, reports
10 the bureau for November, the. nrst
month under the new ord order Of things;
Of last year Raw cotton, which is i'm,
ported into F5ancs free OF duty ana
| rs largely responsible for the increase
in exports. while a., works twenty years
old and over. admitted free under the
new law. and diamonds and hides were
responsible for the Increased imports.
Less Champagne Coming,
The falling off In imports Of cham
pagne from France, due TO the increased
saT was most nprked ods dsciI,ng ss sr9m os3
in November. 1903.
y careful compilation OF figures cover
ing the first month Of the operation
France and the United States has been
prepared for the Associated Press by the
bureau OF ssaetlcs as 5be lo1Ts nses States
and h'r;nce In November. the first month
following the termination OF the reciproc-
vember of last year The total value
OF exports OF domestic products. to France
in Noycn ber 1909. as shown by records
of hp nj
ment OF commerce and labor, was $40
GiS 4l4. against Sl2 o52.554 In November,
France Fg;S 'iT in November 1903. was sl4 1856.
ls9 against So. +e2, 02a in November, 1905
Boost for Raw Cotton.
"rhe Increase In the value OF exports
to France occurred chiefly in raw cot,
ton, an article not affected BY tariff N
duty into France. The value OF raw
exports s g ETanss Sanst IN
. n i''; 'N;ovembef. 1903; tins advance being
due In par; to higher prices.
THE special trade agreements In eN.
istence between France and the United
States. which terminated October 81, 1909,
gave to certain articles entering France
from the United States the minimum tar
III rate of that country and TO certain
articles entering the United States from
} France special rates of duty, and the
: termination of these agreements made
, these articles again subject TO the rnaNl-
mum or SeHSrdI ldIllI IdtSS III
and to the general tariff rates in the
United States.
"The more important articles from the
J United States upon which the French
rates Of duty were advanced, as shown
/, by recent statement of the tarin divl-
sion OF the bureau OF manufacturers:
were petroleum crude an increase OF
, 100 per cent in the rate OF duty: refined,
an increase OF 100 per cent; heavy oils.
an increase OF SO per cent; various
grades OF fruits. ranging from 80 per
> cent TO 200 per cent advance In rates
OF duty: lard, 80 per cent: canned meats.
SO per cent; manufactured and prepared
pork meats. 100 per cent and coffee. l2l
|. per cent