Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1920-10-15

Imports of leather and manufac-
lures of leather aggregated $2,126,-
S01 in August of 1919; in August Of
1920 they totaled $3,076,416. In the
first eight months of last year they
were 81, 295, 240, and in the same per-
iod of this year, $25, 76S,110.
Imports of meat and dairy products
totaled $2,390,220, in August, 1919.
andd s6,911,103 in August, 1920. In
the first eight months Of 1919, they
aggregated S23,5S9,122 and in the
same period of this year, 9,475, 122.
For butter and butter substitutes
alone, these figures, in August, 1919.
include $451,541, and in August, 1920
$1,2bZ, 1886. For the eight months
period, butter and butter substitutes
imports were 1921, SIT, in 1919, and
$13,040,95S in 1920.
The imports Of iron and steel ag-
gregated $1,623,426 in August, 1919.
and $6,544,925 in August, 1920. For
the first eight months of 1919 they
were $15,033,634 and for the first
eight months of the current year they
totaled 49,, S70,363. These items in
clude imports of machinery totaling
$2S6,037 in August, 1919, and $1,O41.-
707 in August, 1920 For the first
eight months of 1919 the machinery
imports were $2,497,52S, and for the
first eight months of the current year
$5,359,516. Wood and manufactures
of wood--not including paper-were
imported to a total of $9,672,619 in
August 1919, and $26, 243,352, in Aug
ust, 1920. For the first eight months
of 1919, these imports aggregated
$5S, $50, 564, and for the first eight
months of the current year, $127,633,
SAT.
The imports of raw cotton in Aug
ust, 1919, were $2,586,942, and in Aug
ust, 1920, $7,97S,SS6, while for the
first eight months of last year they
aggregated s29,231 ,931 and for the
first eight months of this year, 1924.
502,115. Manufactures of cotton
showed an import record of $685.
451 in August, 1919, and $13,071 ,439
in August, 1920; for the first eight
months of 1919 they were S23,702,5
and for the first eight months of
the current year $103, 362,912.
Despite the decentralization of the
world wool markets, American i'm
ports of manufactures of wool jumped
from $1,145,11S in August, 1919, to
$6,028,779 in August, 1920, while in
the eight months period they rose
from $S,166,084 in 1919, to $41, JOG,
804 in the current year.
To the Free Trade propagandists
who are worried lest a protective Tar
if law keep down the flood of Japan
csc imports to the United States we
commend the following provision Of
the new japanese Tariff law which
has just been published by the Bureau
of foreign and Domestic Commerce:
"When the staple industries of
Japan are threatened by the i'm
portation of unreasonably cheap
goods, or by the sale of imports
at an unreasonably cheap price,
the Government, by Imperial or
dinance, after investigation by a
board of inquiry, is authorized to
designate those commodities for
which during certain period
special import duties, in addition
to the regular schedule, shall be
paid, not to exceed, however, the
value of the commodity itself.
Regarding commodities which
have been thus designated which
have already been imported, and
which are owned or possessed by
a merchant or his representative,
the Government is authorized to
levy superduties for such COM
modities from the seller or his
representative in accordance with
the preceding paragraph. The
superduties provided in the pre-
ceding paragraph shall be collect
ed after the method of collecting
national taxes"
Apparently the Japanese law max
ers are not worrying about the fail
ure of Free-Trade but are concerned
first with our own industries. Efforts
to pass an effective anti-dumping Law
at the last session of the American
Congress failed because of Free Trade
opposition.
OSWALD IL CHHITETTE