The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-08-02
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Some Of the Benefits that the Reci-
procity Agreement with Canada
VIII Confer on the Great Mass Of
Consumers in the Cities and
Towns and Country.
In presenting the prospective ben
efts Of the reciprocal trade agree
ment between the United States and :
Canada, it is necessary to consider
that under the present tariff law
many Of the duties have been who'll
ly prohibitiye. The present amount
Of importation or the present income
to the United States through the me-
dunn Of the custom house is, ex-
cept in few instances, no index to
the future trade in any particular ar
ticle or commodity.
The restrictions of the past re-
moved, certain articles, to-day only
nominally upon the list Of imports
from the United States into Canada
and from Canada into the United
States, must, in the immediate fu-
ture become important articles Of
trade in one direction OF. the other
and in some instances in both direc-
tions. The following are among the
important changes in the present
trade conditions with Canada, which
the agreement ratified by the bill
passed will put into effect at once.
The question, then, is What will rec
iprocity accomplish? It will
i. Admit to the United States free
! Of duty articles to the value of $685.
! 811,560 under which the Payne-Ald-
rich tariff law there is now duty.
In return Canada by remission Of
| her duties, will admit free, products
Of the United States to the value Of
s21,s57,605, according to the sta
tistics for last year obtainable for
purposes of calculation.
2. Place upon the free list wheat,
rye, oats, barley, buckwheat, dried
peas and beans, and corn upon which
the United States at present imposes
a varying schedule of duties
ranging from ten cents per bushel
for rye to IS cents per bushel for
dried beans. All this benefit to the
consumer being accomplished at a
revenue cost to the United States Of
less than 100000.
8. Place upon the free list cattle,
horses, mules, sheep and swine at
present dutiable at rates approx
mately 25 per cent, but at a revenue
cost to the United States Of less than
s275,0o0.
4. Place upon the free list vegeta--
| bles of all sorts, including potatoes,
| cabbages, onions, sweet potatoes and
yams, now taxed at from 25 cents to
40 cents per bushel, and all other
fresh vegetables not enumerated at
25 per cent advaloren, q i at a cost
| to the United States Of s380,ooo.
5. Relieve from the tariff Of IA
cent per pound the annual importa-
ton Of 31,841,153 pounds Of fresh
water fish, and from the tariff Of
from 3-4 to cent per pound Of 49,
341,921 pounds Of maekerel, ellis,
smelts, halibut, and herring; IT,
0S5,091 pounds of cod, hadoek, hake
and other dried, smoked and salt
fish, and 1o,OO0,000 pounds Of salted
| and smoked mackerel and herring,
at a revenue cost to the United
States Of s3s0,0o0.
6. Remove the existing tariff on
pulp wood and print paper, thereby
admitting to the United States free
160,217,569 pounds Of pulp wood
| now dutible, and S6;766,027 pounds
Of print paper, according to the i'm
portations of 1910, at revenue cost
to the government Of 100000, and
5,446,109 pounds Of chemically pre-
pared unbleached and 19,345,312
pounds of b1eached pulp wood at a
revenue OF s175,o00.
7. Place lumber upon the free list
thereby relieving the American con-
sumer of the tariff of s1.25 per 1000
! feet upon the 975,975,000 feet Of
sawed lumber imported last year at
revenue sacrifice Of s1,219,s70.
8. Reduce The present tariff on
fresh meats from 11-2 per pound to
/ IA cents per pound for the return
concession on the part Of Canada OF
a reduction of cents pound to
IA cents. Reduce the tariff on ba-
con and hams from cents per
pound to 1 IA cents per pound, on
all other dried and smoked meats
from 25 per cent. advalorem to 1 IA
cent per pound, in return for re-
duction on the part Of Canada from
Q cents per pound to the same fig
ure. These changes in the meat
tariff to be effected at a revenue
loss to the United States of less than
$4,000.
9. Reduce the duty on canned veg
tables from 40 per cent advalorem
to 1 IA cents per pound, at TeVe-
nue. loss Of $4,000.
10. Reduce the tariff on flour
from 25 per cent advalorem to SO
cents per barrel Of 1876 pounds, at a
revenue loss of $4,000.
II. Reduce the tariff on maple
sugar and maple syrup from cents
per pound to ! cent per pound, at
a revenue loss Of $4,000.
-. Reduce the tariff on lathes
from 20 cents per 1000 to 10 cents
per 1000, and upon shingles from
so cents per 1000, to 80 cents per
1000, at a revenue loss for the two
items Of 100000.
13. Articles to the value Of s47,-
333,158 are affected by the new re-