Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-03-21
title the United States to the MIMI
mum duties Of other nations.

title the United States to the mini
mum duties Of other nations.
After discussing the matter it was
agreed to allow the provision to re-
main in the bill upon the assump-
ton that other countries recognize
the usual relations existing between
the United States and Cuba would
not object to the lower duties which
the island republic would get. Fur
thermore, in. support of this argu-
ment, it is contended that Cuba ships
to this country articles which do not
compete with our imports from the
countries of Europe.
There are other difficulties in the
way of operating successfully a max
imum and minimum tariff. Most
European nations have special trade
relations on certain products WITH
their boring countries, and it
will be inconsistent for the United
States to expect these nations to alb
rogate these agreements in order to
get the benefits of our minimum du-
ties.
On the other hand, the trainers of
the Payne bill have designed the
maximum tariff provisions in such a
way that practically every country
in Europe will be compelled to seek
our minimum duties in due time.
The principal object in making the
new bill a maximum and minimum
measure was to use this provision as
a means of forcing other countries to
grant to American industries the
same opportunities for trade that
they grant to other countries.
The Payne bill places maximum
duty of 20 per cent additional on ar
ticles in the chemical, tobacco, sugar,
agricultural products, cotton, silk
and paper schedules, with the excep-
ton of coal tar dyes and extracts for
dyeing in the chemical schedule, for
which there is no maximum rate of
duty.
The rates of the Dingley law are
retained as maximum duties on pig
iron, structural steel, steel billets,
iron and steel plates, steel wire and
numerous other iron and steel pro-
ducts.
The maximum duties for the pot
terry schedule are Is per cent more
than the minimum, and for the sun
dries schedule the increase is an ad-'
dition of Is per cent ad valorem.
The fax and wool schedules have
no maximum duties prescribed.
The principle articles on the free
list for which 20 per cent ad val
orem is provided in the maximum
schedule are coffee, crude natural
camphor, drugs for dyeing and tan
ming hides, iron ore, oils, including
petroleum, tallow and tobacco
stems.
Western states are claiming that
the new drawback provision in the
Payne tariff bill. is discriminatory
against the west and in favor of the
east. The revised drawback section
permits manufacturers to secure the
regular drawback of 80 per cent of
the duty paid on imported raw ma
terial without the necessity of using
the imported material in the manu-
featured product that is exported. A
raw material of domestic productions
in equal quantity of similar charac-
ter may be used instead of the i'm
ported material.
Western members of congress con-
tend that this tends to give the man
ufacturer at the seaboard decided
advantage over the manufacturer in
the interior, on account Of the freight
rates. One illustration offered was
that of manufacturer in Minneapo-
lis who imports from Canada thou
sand bushels of wheat on, which he
intends to collect drawback when
it is exported. ell would find.it more
advantageous, under the new draw