Evening star., 1920-01-04

Commerce, but only with reference to
trade in Agricultural products. In
the United Kingdom the territory OF
the agricultural trade commissioner
the consular agents and representa-
tives Of the Department Of Commerce
either refrain from making agricul-
tural Investigations or they work
with the agricultural commissioner
in such a way as to avoid duplication.
The agents Of the Department OF Ag-
riculture travelling in South America
call upon the consular officers. com
mercial attaches and trade commits
sioners to acQuaint themselves with
agricultural researches already COM
pleted and pursue their Investigations
in new fields.
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The field of operations Of tho Pan
American Union as well as that Of the
international high
Pan. .Americau commission. 8
Unions Work. Eour ,nves,;eators
Of the Pan-American Union have recent
ly completed studies Of general economic
conditions in Latin American coun-
tries; these Investigations are cited as
typical OF the work which the Pan
American Union does outside Of the
United States. The International high
commission has sent groups Of investi-
gators to South America to study COM
mercia1 and financial conditions, but
foreign agents are not maintained in the
RAnt
with the an-American Union.
Tho possible duplication Of general
economic investigation would occur un-
der present conditions only between the
agents of the Pan-American Union and
trade commissioners of the Latin Amer
eign and domestic commerce. During
tho past year two trade commissioners
investigated general commercial condi-
tions in Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia
and Peru. AS the Pan-American Union
agents also Investigated general condi-
tons In these same countries, the union
and the Commerce Latin American di-
the same ground, However. the inves-
legations differed materially in charac-
ter. The reports prepared by the Pan
American Union are more popular in
style, and are designed to acquaint the
general reading public with the coun-
tries described, their physical and
scenic features, the characteristics and
occupations Of the people, besides the
economic conditions. The reports of the
trade commissioners are intended pri-
marily for manufacturers and exporters
are technical in character throughout,
and are essentially treatises on spe-
cia1ised trade No substantial duplica-
ton could be shown from this work OF
the two establishments.
Certain othAr fundamental differences
in the work Of the i've organizations
actively engaged in foreign trade pro-
- motion should be not
Fundamental ed. Tho investiga-
Differences. the bursan of for.
eign and domestic commerce relate for
the most part to particular subjects and
specific trade problems. and these re-
searches receive the entire time of the
specialists at work upon them. The De-
partment of State, on the contrary, ac-
complishes its trade investigations in
the foreign field, largely through ques-
tionnaires and schedules to its hundreds
Of consular officers. who give such time
70 filing in the desired data as they
can spare from their routine notarial
and other consular duties.
The work of the Department of
Agriculture in connection with for
eign trade is of q highly specialized
nature. The investigations of the in
ternational high commission are
rather incidental to the commission's s
main work of negotiating interna-
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desirable legislation. The commercial
work of the Pan-American Union is
largely non-technical in character
and is interviewer with the promo
tion Of peace and friendship as CO.
ordinate functions with that of de-
veloping trade.
Both the Pan-American Union and
the international high commission
are interna-
Work in the Field Of tional in scope
Latin America. fort. are d.
rected toward promoting the trade
interests of all Latin American coun-
tries as we'll as those of the United
States. This government bears only
a share of the cost Of maintaining
these organizations, which is 100000
a wear for tho Pan-American Union
and S25,000 for the international high
commission.
cheney advises Congress, the Depart
ments Of State, Commerce and Agri-
culture, the Pan-American Union and
the international high commission are
all working at the same task OF pro-
noting foreign commerce, but each
Of these FIVE establishments is ap-
preaching the problem from q differ
ent standpoint, each Is employing a
differently qualified representative In
the field, and each is distributing the
resulting intelligence in a different
form and to q different clientele of
interests. Tho general goal striven
for IL the same; the particular phases
of the work differ sufficiently to re-
fute the charge Of duplication. The
nine other departments and commits
sions connected with the promotion
gagged in additional special phases of
Commercial development relating sew
orally to finance, transportation, the
tariff and trust legislation.
With 4 view to co-ordinating the
work Of the various government de-
pa rtments engaged
co,()rdinating or interested in the
promotion of foreign
Meetings. trade. the Secretary
of State initiated in March, 1919. the
weekly meeting Of a group of de-
partment representatives known as
the economic liaison committee. This
COMMITTEES has no official status. Its
function is to bring about co-opera-
tion among the departments repre-
sented, to provide for the informal
discussion Of all questions relating