The New York herald., 1922-05-18
Tariff Death to Our Exports.

! SdHdud > IOTeiSu tIduS HSuTeS lOE
the year ending with March contain
a fund of information and red sig
nal warning for irrational tariff
makers in Congress If they will
study the meaning OF the record.
1t is about yo ~ Congress
passed the emergency tariff act to
protect the American farmer from
being undersold in his own home
market by a food of agricultural
products from across the northern
border. The results are roughly COW
cred in the trade between the Domin-
ion and the United States as shown
in the Canadian figures for the
twelve months to April last. They
show that while the emergency tariff
has been in effect we have lost nearly
500, 100000 more in sales to Canada
than Canada has lost in sales to US.
And at that the existing emergency
tariff is gentle tap compared with
the blow the Fordney and McCumber
schedules could give to our whole
foreign trade.
While the Canadian exports to the
| United States for the year were be-
ing cut down from s542.000.00O to
| 1894, 900. or loss Of $24S,000,-
600, the United States exports to
| Canada we're crashing down from
SS56.000.0O0 to s516,000,00o, or loss
of ss4o, 100000.
In the year ending with March,
1921, the trade balance in our favor,
as concerned Canada, was s314.O00,-
600. In the year ending with March,
1920, it was 1922. 100000. The result
Of that emergency tariff shift, in
other words, was that we had approx
imately one-third less to collect on
settlement in Canada this last year
than there had been for us to collect
the year before.
If Fordney McCumber tariff
erected on Chinese wall measure
ments should work slaughter of
our exports proportionate to the
slaughter of our exports already ac-
complished under the emergency
tariff schedules we may see our favor
able trade balance OF s314.000, 900
with Canada in 1921 moved down in
the first year of the skyhigh Fordney-
McCumber tariff to 100000, 900. A
fine business bargain-giving up
dollar, roughly, for every thirty cents
the other fellow gave up!
Moreover. there is another thing to
be noted In the damage we can do
ourselves In wiping out our trade
with Canada. 1t is pure fiction that
our farmers are buried under. Cana
dian agricultural exports while Ca
madam farmers suffer no competition
from our agricultural exports. AS a
matter of cold. hard fact our farm
products sold in Canada for the year
ending with March at the rate OF
about one dollar for every eighty
cents that Canadian farm products
sold in the United States.
Canada's animal products In that
ear came here to the value OF S4S.-
000,O our animal products went to
Canada to the value OF only $685.
100000 But our vegetable products
went to Canada to the amount of
Ss5 100000; Canada's vegetable prod
ucts came here to the value OF only
s47 900.
On those two agricultural products
combined ours went to Canada to the
value Of more than 1921, 900. 900: Can
adas came here to the value Of less
than s06,000,o00
Yet on the mistaken theory that
American farmers still are In more
danger from the ceiling here OF Ca
madam farmers than Canadian farm
ers arc in danger from the selling
there Of American farmers Congress
would put to further risk the selling
IN Canada of general exports from
this country. See what the trade Is
that is at stake:
The value OF our ibers and textile
products sold in Canada during that