Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-02-01
BOOST TOWARD
FREE TRADE
Congress Receives Canadian
Reciprocity Agreement
HEAVY SLASHES IN TARIFFS

Cattle, Vegetables, Milk, Eggs, Fish,
Wheat and Many Other Food Prod
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 reci-
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 or
| President Taft, it was found that an
agreement had been made. and an
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
| ONt"OCh tHC I"o SouhII
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 81 5 percent coming
into the United States and at % 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
III cents a pound when he enters
Canada, and sheep pay 25 percent.
Canadian poultry pays a duty of 5
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
| "1CoI SO0IS A1upOICCu IlIO Sdudud. All
food products like oats, barley, buck
wheat and the like now pay duties
ranging from rs to As cents a bush
ell, coming from Canada, and from 10
to 25 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
agreement is ratified. So will onions
and potatoes, dried fruits, cheese,
!. fresh milk and eggs, which now pay
. considerable duties, as much as 25
cents bushel in the case of potatoes
and cents dozen for eggs of Cana
dian production.
While the Canadians will get their
;; cottonseed oil free, where they now
pay a duty of II. 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;
f they now pay duties ranging from 4
! to 10 cents pound.
The Canadians can ship Goldfish into
I
v smoked, free, where it now pays a
e duty of q of a cent a pound The
0 same is true of halibut, now dutiabIe
l at 1 cent, and herring, which pays u
, a cent pound fresh and u cent
e picked or sailed. Any kind of
D pays l cent pound coming from or
going into Canada. ~
All other sea fish and salmon, fresh
q and smoked, and prepared in various
b 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 3 to 5 cents a can. Fish
, oil goes on the free list. 1t now pays
5 cents gallon entering into the
e United States and o. 5 percent enter
7 ing Canada.
The present duty of Is cents a gal
Ion on cod liver oil imported into the
United States is completely wiped out.
So is the duty of II cents 100 pounds
On salt coming from Canada, while
The Canadians also remit their duty of
~ cents on American salt.
+ Canadian timber, now dutiable at
. " cent cubic foot, and all kinds of
! blanks of different woods, now duti-
: able at so cents to S1.25 a thousand.
and telegraph poles, now paying 10
percent, and pickets at 10 percent,
MI Oh on the free list
e American tin-plate and crucibles
S steel wire, which now pays per-
rent, will be admitted in Canada free,
and the same is true of barbed fenc-
+ Ing wire coming from Canada, which,
Y now pays q of a cent pound.
Some of the articles that are to be
admitted at reduced rates of duty on
10th sides follow:
Mutton and lamb, IA cents a