Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-04
EFFECTS OF RECIPROCITY.
What Will Probably Happen If Cana
da Is Agreeable.

The reciprocity bill, which was
recently passed by congress and
which was signed last Thursday by
President Taft, Is now dependent only
on the action of the Canadian parlia-
ment. In presenting the prospective
benefits of the reciprocal trade agree
ment between the United States and
Canada, says the New York World,
1t Is necessary to consider that under
the present tariff law many Of the du-
ties have been wholly prohibitive. The
present amount of importation or the
present income to the United States
through the medium of the custom
house is, except in a few instances, no
index to the future In trade in any
particular article or commodity. The
restrictions of the past removed, GER
tain articles, today only nominally
upon the list of imports from the
United States into Canada and from
Canada into the United States, must
in the immediate future become i'm
portant articles Of trade In one direc-
ton or the other and in some instances
in both directions. The following are
among the important changes in the
present trade conditions between the
United States and Canada which the
reciprocity agreement will put into eff
feet: First-It will admit to the
United States free of duty articles
to the value of $39,S11,560 upon
which under the Payne Aldrich
tariff law there Is now a duty. In re-
turn Canada, by a similar remission OF
her duties, will admit free products Of
the United States to the value of $21,-
957,605, according to the statistics
for the last year obtainable for pur-
poses of calculation. Second-Place
ha lctf fttha
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-
forty-nve cents per bushel for dried
beans, all this benefit to the consumer
being accomplished at q revenue cost
to the United States of less than $780,
900. Third-Place upon the free list
cattle, horses. mules, sheep and swine,
at present dutiable at varying rates
averaging, approximately, 25 per cent
but at a revenue cost to the United
States of less than $275,OOO. Fourth
Place upon the free list vegetables Of
all sorts, including potatoes, cabbages,
onions, turnips, sweet potatoes and
yams, now taxed at from twenty-five
cents to forty-cents per bushel, and all
other fresh vegetables not enumerated
at twenty-five per cent ad Valorem,
and at a cost in revenue to the United
States of $3S0,000. Fifth-Relieve
from the tariff Of cent per pound
the annual importation Of 31,S41,152
pounds Of fresh water fish, and from
the tariff Of from 2 to 1 cent per
pound of 13,341,921 pounds of mack
erel, eels, smelts, halibutt and herring;
l7,OS5,091 pounds of cod, haddock,
hol lya nd 6ria a6 nd
fish, and 100000 pounds Of salted
and smoked mackerel and herring, at
a revenue cost to the United States of
$3S0,000 Sixth-Remove the existing
tariff on pulp wood and print paper,
thereby admitting to the United States
free 160,217,659 pounds Of pulp wood
now dutiable, and Sc, 766,O27 pounds
Of print paper, according TO the I'M
portations of 1910, at a revenue cost to
The government of 100000, and 49,
446, 100 pounds of chemically prepar-
ed unbleached and 19,345,312 pounds
of bleached pulp wood at a revenue
cost of $1I5,000. Seventh-Place
lumber upon the free list, thereby re-
lieving the American consumer OF the
tariff of $1.25 per 1000 feet upon the
975,975,O00 feet of sawed lumber i'm
ported last year at a revenue sacrifice
of $l,219,970. Eighth-Reduce the
present tariff on fresh meats from l J
cents per pound to II cents per pound
for the return concession on the part
of Canada of a reduction from three
cents a pound to IL cents. Reduce
the tariff on bacon and hams from
four cents per pound to II cents per
pound, on all other dried and smoked
meats from 25 per cent, ad valorem to
II cents per pound, in return for a
reduction on the part of Canada from
two cents per pound to the same fg-
ure. These changes In the meat tariff
to be effected at revenue loss to the
United States of less than $4,000.
Ninth-Reduce the duty on canned
vegetables from forty per cent ad va
loren a barrel of 1876 pounds, at a
revenue loss of $4,000 Tenth-Re-
duce the tariff on -four from twenty
five per cent ad valorem to fifty cents
per barrel Of 1876 pounds, at revenue
loss of $4,000. Eleventh-Reduce
the tariff on maple sugar and maple
syrup from four cents per pound to-
one cent per pound at revenue loss
of $4,000. Twelfth-Reduce the tar
if on laths from twenty cents per
1000 to ten cents per 1000, and upon
shingles from fifty cents per 1000 to|
thirty cents per 1000, at revenue
loss for the two items of 5000, 600.
Observation-Disclosures to the value Of
$47,333,158 are affected by the new
reciprocal agreement. Upon these ar
tcleS the total tariff levied at present
is $5.649,S36 per annum. OF this reye-
nue. the United States will remit duties
TO the amount of $4,S49,933.