Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-02-02
CANADIAN TARIFF
PACT IN CONGRESS
Terms of New Agreement Are
Made Public.
TAFT URGES CONFIRMATION
Leading Food Products Are included
in the Schedule, Also Live Ami
maIs-Paper to Ee Free of
DutV.

Washington. Within less than ten
months after the initiation by
President Taft of negotiations with
the Canadian government there was
laid simultaneously before the Amer
lean congress at Washington and the
Canadian parliament at ottawa a reel
procity arrangement, which if ap-
proved by the legislative branches of
the two governments, will surely do
much to enlarge and liberalize the
trade between the United States and
Canada
Briefly and summarized, this agree
ment provides for free exchange be-
tween Canada and the United States
Of wheat and other grains; dairy
products, fresh fruits and vegetables;
fish Of all kinds; eggs and poultry; cat
tie, sheep and other live animals.
Printing paper is also to become free
on the removal of all restrictions on
the expectation from Canada of pulp
wood
While there are numerous other
provisions in the agreement, these are
the most vital as affecting the cost of
living to the millions of people in
both nations.
In Il general way the agreement pro-
poses to keep extremely low, or re-
move altogether the duties on raw ma
teTial, while retaining the duties on
manufactured products. This will
have a tendency, no doubt, to prove
distasteful to the farmer, but please
the manufacturing interests.
In addition to the reciprocal free
list already noted there are also GER
tain commodities now free in one
country which are to be made free by
the other, such, for instance as cot
ton seed oil by Canada. and rough
lumber by the United States. Tin
and terne plates, now dutiable in
both countries, are made mutually
free. Barbed wire fencing, now eX-
empted from duty by Canada, is also
exempted by the United States. Can
ada also agrees to remit a certain
percentage Of the duty which she
now imposes on American coal.
Where the cost of living will again
be effected, but to what extent can
not yet be materially estimated, is in
the schedules where rates have been
mutually reduced on secondary food
products such as fresh meats, canned
meats, bacon and hams, lard and lard
compounds, canned vegetables, flour,
cereal preparations and other food
stuffs partly manufactured.
There are likewise mutually re-
duced rates on manufactured com
modities which include motor We
hicles, cutlery, satchels and similar
leather goods, plate glass, brass band
instruments, printing ink and mis-
cellaneous articles.
AS was to be expected, since the
tariffs Of the United States are much
higher than those Of Canada, the
United States has been compelled to
make the greater reductions. AS for
instance the total amount of duties
that are be RENTED by the United
States under the agreement is $4,-
$4,000, while the. total amount of
duties that Canada RENTS is only
$2,560,000. The value of he articles
now dutiabe which the United States
proposes to make free is $39,811 900,
while the value of the articles on
which the United States proposes to
reduce the duties is 1881 900
Again the articles imported into the
United States from Canada which are
effected b. the agreement is $47,-
$4,000.
In the matter of wood pulp, the re-
moval of the duty now put on pulp by
the United States is subject to the
previous removal by the Canadian
provinces of the pulp expert tax
which is now imposed Little diff
Guilty is apprehended from this, how
ever, since there is said to be a dis
position on the part of most Of the
provinces to remit any export charges
which they now impose.
There is nothing more significant
in the presidents message than is
embodied in the closing paragraph:
"Since becoming a nation" says he,
Canada has been our good neighbor,
Immediately contiguous across a
wide continent without artificial or
natural barrier except nayigable wa
tiers used in common
'fShe has cost US nothing in the way
of preparations for defense against
her possible assault and she never
will"
Remarriage Stops AIimony.