The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1911-02-03
BOOST TOWARD
FREE TRADE
Congress Receives Canadian
Reciprocity Agreement
HEAVY SLASHES IN TARIFFS

ucts Placed on Free List, While Re.
duction Is Made on Meats-Presi
dent Urges Ratification of the
Treaty by Congress
Washington, Jan. 27.-The reel
procity agreement made between Can
ada and the United States was sent to
congress by President Taft yesterday
afternoon with a special message urg-
ing its ratification.
When the terms of the formidable
document were made known on the
reading of the special message OF
President Taft, it was found that an
| agreement had been made. and al
epoch in the history of the Republican
party as well had been made. The
| barriers are down as low as they can
be laid at this time. The ground has
been prepared for ultimate free trade
| between the two countries.
There is free trade in nearly all
articles of food. Where free trade is
| not recommended in food, then the
duties have been lowered to the rates
of the Canadian intermediate tariff
from 21a cents to 10 cents on the
value.
Among the articles now dutiable
that go on the free list are cattle,
which are now dutiable at the rate of
from 81 each to q. 5 percent coming
into the United States and at 25 per-
cent going into Canada. Every Ca
madam hog pays a 81. so tax when he
crosses the line, and so does a sheep,
while the American porker is taxed
~ cents pound when he enters
Canada, and sheep pay % percent.
Canadian poultry pays a duty of
cents a pound dead and cents alive,
and American poultry crossing into
Canada pays 20 percent.
Canadian wheat is taxed 25 cents a
bushel entering America, which is
more than double the rate American
wheat costs imported into Canada. All
food products like oats, barley, buck
wheat and the like now pay duties
ranging from Is to As cents a bush
ell, coming from Canada, and from 10
to % cents entering Canada from the
United States. Hay pays 81 a ton
going to Canada and 81 returning.
All these will now be free, if the
and potatoes, dried fruits, cheese,
fresh milk and eggs, which now pay
considerable duties, as much as rs
cents a bushel in the case of potatoes
and 5 cents a dozen for eggs of Cana
dian production.
While the Canadians will get their
cottonseed oil free, where they now
pay a duty of 17.5 percent, on the
other hand, Canadian flaxseed, which |
is now taxed 25 cents a bushel, will |
come into this country free. All !
kinds of garden seeds will be free; |
they now pay duties ranging from 4
to 10 cents pound.
The Canadians can ship Goldfish into |
the United States, fresh or sailed or
smoked, free, where it now pays a
duty of q of cent a pound. The |
same is true of halibut, now dutiable |
at cent, and herring, which pays u
a cent a pound fresh and u cent |
picked or sailed. Any kind of |
mackerel will be free, where it now
pays 1 cent a pound coming from or
going into Canada.
All other sea fish and salmon, fresh
and smoked, and prepared in various
ways, will be free, where they now
pay as much at 80 percent duty on
each side of the line. American oys-
ters are given free entry into Canada,
where they are now taxed 10 cents a
gallon, or to cents a can. Fish
oil goes on the free list. 1t now pays
cents a gallon entering into the
United States and 90 percent enter
ing Canada.
The present duty Of is cents a gall
lon on cod liver oil imported into the
United States is completely wiped out.
So is the duty of IL cents 100 pounds
On salt coming from Canada, while
he Canadians also remit their duty of
~ cents on American salt.
Canadian timber, now dutiable at
y cent a cubic foot, and all kinds OF
blanks of different woods, now dut-
able at so cents to SIPS a thousand,
and telegraph poles, now paying 10
percent, and pickets at 10 percent,
III go on the free list.
American tin-plate and crucible
steel wire, which now pays per-
,ent, will be admitted i'm Canada free,
Ind the same is true of barbed fenc-
ng wire coming from Canada, which
low pays a Of a cent a pound.
Some Of the articles that are to be
admitted at reduced rates OF duty on
10Th sides follow:
Mutton and lamb. IL cents a
hound, a reduction Of u cent on Ca
ladian mutton and Of Ia on Ameri-
an mutton. The same rates apply to
'ther fresh meats. Bacon is reduced
rom cents to y cent coming from
,anada and from 2 cents to the same
lgure entering Canada. About the
anne rate Of reductions holds good I'm
he case Of salt beef, pork. dried and
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