The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-07-28
WHAT RECIPROCITY MEANS TO
UNITED STATES CONSUMERS.

In presenting the prospective bene-
fits OIL the reciprocal trade agreement
between the United States and Can
ada, it is necessary to consider that
under the present tariff law many of
the duties have been wholly prohibit
i've. The present amount of importa-
tion or the present income of the
United States through the medium of
the customs house is, except in few
instances, no index to the future in
any particular article or commodity.
The restrictions of the past remov
ed certain articles, today only nom
inally upon the list of imports from
the United States into Canada and
from Canada into the United States,
must in the immediate future become
important articles of trade in one di-
rection or the other and in some in
stances in both directions.
The following are among the i'm
portant changes in the present trade
conditions between the United States
and Canada which the agreement rat
fled by the bill passed yesterday will
put into effect at once.
The question then is, What will
reciprocity accomplish?
1t WILL
1. Admit to the United States free
of duty articles to the value of $780,
81, $50, upon which, under the Payne
Aldrich tariff law, there is now a
duty. In return Canada, by a similar
remission of her duties, will admit
free products of the United States to
the value of 1885, COS, according to
the statistict of the last year obtain
able for the purpose of calculation.
?. 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 10 cents per bushel for rye to
As 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.
3. Place upon the free list, cattle,
horses, mules, sheep and swine, at
present dutiable at various rates av-
eraging approximately % per cent,
h1,f of 0<c N %hA I,:% 4d
States of less than '$275,000.
f. Place upon the free list vegeta-
bles of all sorts, including potatoes,
cabbages, onions, turnips, sweet po-
tatoes and yams, now taxed at from
25 cents to 40 cents per bushel, and
all other fresh vegetables not enumer-
ated at 25 per cent. ad valorem, and
at a cost to the United States in rev.
enue of $3S0,OOO
5. Relieve from the tariff of IA
cent per pound the annual importa-
ton of 31,S41,152 pounds of fresh
water fish, and from the tariff of from
3-4 to 1 cent per pound|of 1884, 921
pounds of mackerel, cells, smelts, hall
but and herring; 17,0S5,091 pounds of
cod, haddock, hake and other dried,
smoked and salt fish, and 100000
pounds of smoked and sailed mack
erel and herring, at revenue cost to
the United States of $3S0,000
g. Remove the existing tariff on
pulp wood and print paper. thereby
admitting to the United States free
60,217 $500 pounds of pulp wood now
dutiable, and S6,766,027 pounds of
print paper, according to the importa-
lions of 1910, at a revenue cost to the
government of 100000, and 1916
100 pounds of chemically prepared
unbleached and 19,345,312 pounds of
bleached pulp wood at a revenue cost
of $175,OOO
Z. Place lumber upon the free list
thereby relieving the American con-
sumner of the tariff of S125 per 1000
feet upon the 975,975,000 feet of saw
ed lumber imported last year at a rev.
enue sacrifice of $1,219.970.
s. Reduce the present tariff on
fresh meats from 1 IL cents per
pound to IA cents per pound for the
return concession on the part Of Can
ada of a reduction from 3 cents 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 20 per
cent. ad valorem to 1 IA cents per
pound, in return for a reduction on
the part of Canada from 2 cents per
pound to the same figure. These
changes in the meat tariff to be effect
ed at revenue loss to the United
States of less than $4,000.
8. Reduce the duty on canned vege-
tables from 40 per cent. ad yalorem
to II cents per pound, at a revenue
loss of $4,000.
10. Reduce the tariff on flour from