Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-10-06
Robinson Explains
Methods To Develop
The Foreign Trade

Los Angeles, Oct. 6.-The methods
by which. the United States canp de-
veIop foreign trade and at the same
time maintain q protective tarin were
outlined here today when Henry IL.
Robinson, formerly commissioner Of
the United States shipping board and
now president of the First National
bank Of Los Angeles, placed the gqrres-
ton of FREE ports and free zones be-
fore the American Bankers' associ-
alton in annual convention, through
his discussion OF the trade zone bill
which Senator Jones OF Washington
now has before congress. i
MI. Robinson spoke ais one inter-
ested both in protective tariff and
foreign trade. He pointed out 'the
apparent Inconsistency. Of Alternating
to develop both at the same time, de-
claring it was only through the es-
tablishing OF q free port and q free
zone policy that the foreign trader
and the p~rotectionist could meet on
common ground and the ends to
which both were working could be ac-
complished.
Machinery Provided
He said that the Jones bill, as now
amended. provided necessary ma
chtnery for the creation OF foreign
trade zones in or adjacent to Ameri-
can ports OF entry, and authorised the
secretary Oh comanerce to grant to
states. municipalities and their legal
subdivisions the privilege of euab-
fishing such zones. He summarized
the provisions of tho bill and declared
that, whereas, under tt1 present terms,
both foreign and domestic merch1n-
disc might be brought into q free
Zone and there broken up. assembled.
mtxed with foreign or domestic a
or otherwise manipulated for
re-export. direct m8nufacturing, az
such, could not be carried on within
the proposed dtstricts-his in order
to e the wishes Of interior COM
muntttes and to alsay their fearD az to
seaboard manufacturing competition
Under the terms Of this aot," Mr..
RobinGon said, mo duty is to be ap-
piled to merchandise delivered from
ship to wharf within a free zone un-
teB IN part, or all Of 1t Is taken
out for domestic consumption, at
which time it will pass through the
cnstoms house and be subject to regu-
lar duty. e.
Tn other words, we may, within
certain districts within our ports of
entry DO a free trade nation and at
h same time protect our own do
nestle markets from q nood Of
cheap1y manufactured European and
Asiatic goods.
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I0 OK INC A"e1Dcan
= metnoo mus De pfoFaaed 1or tue
.MnAH..nlH1&11e o. a marine
~ A1ty aoloao me Surplus
"a x-sIe'acIh naAn1ac1ure goods:
SSwne tnese gooos
- 1879 49, up0n ou5 Own and
MsE I Ieouce the e1rn1neo OF our
u1e pro1S o! OUT
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1n Aoof Ar0eiA-
Economists Agree.
'Econonistv xenerapv aroa rhat j,
surplus u the coutrolHne factor Il
it not therefore. S4e to a..ume
that it is the bacarinx no ~ IN,
Manufactured eurplus ana our ina
mltty 10 soil abroad that f,aa
about our unemployment satuatton?
Since the beginning. any nation
which has With anv an
preciable. des,ree Of Hucceaz in inter.
national Commences has been eitber on
q free trade basic. or has naintafned
one or more free ports or free zone
"For vean however We as a na-
ton. have maintained a hieh tarifr
and most of the time a yerv high