New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-07
Tariff Battle
Will Open in
House To-day
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pletely paralyzed had it not been for
the check on the food of foreign goods
resulting from the war.
The report dwells particularly on the
German competition to American in
dustry and asserted that, with Ameri-
can markets the only ones in the world
open to them the Germans would enter
the field here ruthlessly and destruc-
lively.
mo tariff duties, no matter how
high" says tie report "can meet the
conditions that would arise when Ger
many again is in a position to force
her dyes and dyestuffs on American mar
kets- Utterly INSCRIPTIONS as the great
German dye syndicate was before the
war, when its supremacy was uncon-
tested, it will now attack all competi-
tors with reckless disregard of bust
ness deeency."
with the ending of the war and the
resumption of production in Europe,
foreign competition is once more being
keenly felt" it continues, industrial
depression is the inevitable result of
the offering of foreign goods upon the
American market at less than the
American cost of production"
The report contends That the pro-
posed tariff, while SO framed as to at
ford both revenue and protection to
American producers, saddles the Amer
Ican consumer with no unnecessary
burden.
The report described the agriculture;
products schedule as an "all-Amer ican
tariff on normal basis" and declare 1
that the compensatory duty on manu-
features of wool had been kept dowr
to the lowest point consistent with
protection. 1t predicted that the au-
thorlzation in the lumber schedule for
the President to proclaim a retaliatory
tariff on finished lumber against any
country taxing American products
would have a beneficial effect on the
export of finished lumbe
With regard to the important cheni-
Gals, oils and paints schedule it says, in
part:
The general rate of duty through
out the chemical schedule-chemical
oils and paints-has been established
at uniform level of .25 per cent ad
valorem, with few exceptions whe re
the committee thought that particular
products which represented infant in
dustrles or materials essential to ma
tional preparedness should be given
slightly increased rates"
new provision, designed to encour-
age domestic sugar production is con-
tanned in Schedule on that product.
The report says:
Paragraph Sol is one of the most
important paragraphs in the bill, both
from the standpoint of protection and
revenue. This paragraph provides for
the continuation of the duty on sugar
Imposed by the emergency tariff act
The opponents of the rate fixed in the
emergency act predicted it would add
to the price of sugar. Since the passage
of that act, however, the price of sugar
has continued to decline. and TO-DAY
sugar, duty paid, is offered at a lower
price than at any time during the last
four years. Under this paragraph, as
recommended by the committee, more
than $120,000,000 in customs duties in
a twelve-month period will be collected
The competition of domestic sugar has
tendency to keep down sugar prices,
and the encourageme of the domestic
sugar industry is worthy of thoughtful
consideration. A review of sugar prices
IN the past bears out the statement
that the entire duty on sugar is BY no
means added to the American selling
price"
Representative Frear, in his criticism
of the bill. called the chemical schedule
"a hlgh-handed proposal to grant prac-
tlcally exclusive dye rights to a recog-
nlzed monopoly" He assaulted the pro
posed duty on cement as benefting the
cement trust at the expense of the
consumers, and attacked the granting
of protection to glass and steel manu-
facturers in the face of advancing
prices by American manufacturers OF
those products