The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1911-01-28
RECIPROCITY DEAL
With CANADA

Within less than ten months after
the initiation by President Taft of ne
gotiations with the Canadian govern
ment there was laid simultaneously be-
fore the American congress at Wash
ington and the Canadian parliament at
Ottawa, reciprocity arrangement
which if approved will do much in the
opinion of the negotiators, to enlarge
trade between the United States and
Canada.
The arrangements do not take the
form of treaty, and considerable time
will be saved in the consummation OF
the agreement, which can be made eff
fective by a simple majority vote in
each of the two legislatures.
The basis of the agreement is this:
Reciprocity on leading food pro-
duets such as wheat and other grains;
dairy products, fresh fruits and vege-
tables, fish of all kinds, eggs and poul-
try, cattle, sheep and other live ami
mails. Also certain commodities now
free in one country are to be made free
by the other, such as cotton seed oil
by Canada and rough lumber by the
United States.
"Tin and tin plates now dutiable are
made mutually free.
Barbed wire fencing, now exempt
ed from duty by Canada, is also ex-
empted by the United States. Some
raw materials, such as mica and gyp-
sum, which enter into numerous indus
tries, are to be made free by the Unit
ed States. Printing paper is to become
free on the removal of all restrictions
on the expectation of pulp wood.
Mutually reduced indentical rates
on secondary food products such as
fresh meats, canned meats, bacon and
hams, lard and lard compounds, canned
vegetables, flour, cereal preparations
and other foodstuffs, partly manufac-
tured.
Reduced Rates on Manufactures.
Mutually reduced rates on list
of manufactured commodities which
include motor vehicles, cutlery, clocks
and watches, sanitary fixtures, satch-
els and similar leather goods, plate
glass, brass band instruments, print
ing ink and miscellaneous articles. Ag-
ricultural implements, such as plows,
harvesters, threshing machines and
drills are reduced by Canada to the
United States rates.
GA small list of articles is made
special by each country. Canada re-
dnees coal to AS cents ton and cement
| to IL cents a hundred pounds. The
United States reduces iron ore to 10
cents ton, lowers the rate on alumi-
mum products and on dressed lumber -
"Total amount of duties to be re-
mitted by the United States, $780,
900.
"Total amount of duties to be re-
mitted by Canada, $2,560,000.
"Value of articles now dutiable,
which the United States proposes to
make free, $39, ,s11 ,000-equal to 76.4
per cent.
"Value of dutiable articles on which
the United States proposes to reduce
duties, 1881, ,000-equal to 14.4 per
cent.
"value of articles imported into the
United States which are affected by
the reciprocal agreement, SAT 1893, 900
equal to 81 per cent.
"value of articles now ditiable
which Canada proposes to make free,
$21 ,95S ,000-equal to 16.5 per cent.
"Value of articles imported into
Canada, which are affected by the re-
clprOclty agrteHeut, @f',oGo,VVV-
equal to 36 per cent.
| 'Value of articles remaining duti-
able, $S5, 1913, ,000-equal to GA per cent.
Amount of Duty RENTED.
"Amount of duty remitted by the
United States on leading Canadian ar
ticles:
| "Sawed lumbed, $1,292, 900; fish,
$464 ,0o0 hay, $3s6,00o; flaxseed and
lnsed, $352 900; wood pulp, $30S,000;
live animals, $276,000; vegetables,
1857 900; printing paper, $l65,oo0;
oats, $l42, 900; mica, $4,000; dairy
products, $105,000; gypsum, $l0l 900;
railroad ties, telegraph poles, etc, $685.
900; wheat and flour $4,000.
"Ammount of duty remitted by Can
ada on leading articles from the Unit
ed States
"Coal, bituminous, $455,0 900; fresh
fruits, $262,000; fresh vegetables,
$242, 900; cotton seed oil, $1S0,000;
live animals, $4,000; papers, $l61,-
900; meal, $l47, 900; agricultural i'm
plements, $4,000; fish of all kinds,
100000; meat products, $4,000; mo-
tor vehicles, ,000."