Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-02-04
AvERTS TARIFF
WAR WITH
GERMANY
CONCESSIONS BY BOTH
SIDES BRING AGREEMENT
American Minimum Rates
in Exchange for German
Minimum Rates With Re-
SuItant Advantages to BothL

tBy Morning journal Special Leased Wirel
Washington. Feb. 3.-Coneessions
by both the United States and Germ
any have averted a Threatened tariff
war. Negotiations have been con-
cluded between the two countries
which settle the question of minimum
and maximum rates with the excep-
ton of the cattle and dressed meat is
sue. This was eliminated from the
present negotiations and will be taken
up later in separate diplomatic repre-
sensations.
Under the agreement made today
American minimum rates viii be ex-
changed for the entire minimum list
of Germany The result is considered
advantageous to both countries
The state department today issued
statement. in part as pollows:
BY the understanding arrived at
there will be no tariff war and no in
terruption of the enormous commerce
between the two countries. The mag
nitude Of this business appears from
the statement that in the calendar year
just closed, the direct interchange OF
commodities between Germany and
the United States exceeded S409, 900,
600 and allowances being made for
the German importations through
other countries the actual volume is
probably in excess of $500. 900. 600
In consc &c the friendly dis
position governments an
agreement reached under
which it will be possible for the
German government. with the co-op-
Grafton of the imperial parliament to
avoid any interruption Of trade and
at the same time to extend to the
United States not only the rates at
present enjoyed. but the entire re-
manning schedules Of minimum rates
now accorded other countries"
The basis of settlement is that
Germany grants to the United States
her full conventional tariff rates in
return for the minimum tariff Of the
tlnitcl states. This Is aii exchange OF
minimum for minimum.
In tho presidents opinion the re-
sponsibilities= d~volving upon him by
the Payne -Aldrich act require that he
demand from all countries their low
est tariff rates 1t is a source OF
much gratiication to the president
that Germany finds 1t possible to ex-
tend TO the United States her com
plcte minimum schedule without res
crvation or qualification.
In return for the concession of her
fun conventional or lowest rates
Germany VIII be accorded the mimi
mum tariff Of the United States, the
statement continues. This puts
Germany in the position Of the most
forward nation in her tariff relations
with the United states The minimum
tariff Of the United states. which as
the basic tariff would otherwise APP
ply after March 81, will therefore not
so into effect, the minimum being
granted in return Tor Germany's full
minimum rates The result is to give
TO Germany the same assurance under
the United States tariff law that she
has secured by her treaties with other
countries
1t was President Taft's opinion. says
the statement that in view OF the
thorough inspection of pork products
now under the United States inspec-
ton law of 1906, the hcalthfulness Of
these products is so fully established
before their expectation that the re-
suits of this inspection should be ac-
cepted in foreign countries,
No objection lis made to micro
scopic inspection OF their own by for
eign countries but the insistenco on
certificates of microscopic inspection
from the United states and the failure
to recognize the present interstate
inspection which was substituted for
il. was bar to the admission of
these products into some German
ports.
The reasonabeness Of this position
was recognized by the German gov
ernment and under the agreement
the imperial authorities VIII take
steps to modify the present regula-
tions under which some ports have
refused to admit American pork pro-
ducts.
The admission OF American live
cattle for slaughter In Germany and
the regulation relating to the i'm
portation OF meat products of various
kinds, the German customs rules gov
crning the drawback of duty allowed
ON flour when exported from Germany
MI of which are OF exceeding interest
from the American standpoint have
been treated on their merits as ques-
tions entirely aside from that of equiv
alent tariff adjustment, continues tia
statement.