Evening star., 1924-04-20
4 TARlFF BOARD: :FAV0RS.
HIGHER WHEAT DUTY.
Members Submit Report to Presi
dent, Covering Rivalry With
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Canadian Product. ..-
DIVIDE ON CERTAIN POINTS
Proposed Increase Is From 80 to AZ
to As Cents.

= Increases in duties on wheat i'm
!. ported into the United. States from
T. Canada from 80 centsAihs present
!. rate-to AZ and 40 cents .pszs4 bnsael,
are recommended in q agfepoft sub
y1nitted to the President by the
tariff commission. z y ~.
The commission submitted aycom-
$.plete statement of data With gchatts
!. and figures showing. tpe ctsrela-
ttion OF costs and prosiaction; As be
tween American wheat and Canadfan
,.wheat, and two observation-disclosures
swith respect to the methods. a apblieR-
: bic to the ascertainniSn4 of cost dtf-
fferences from the data reporteds ~
The first of these general state
.ments, signed by ChaTnlan Margin
land Commissioners William Burgess
and Henry H Classic. Suggested ths
duplication of cost of pEpduction figT
cures to the adjustment 9nf duties or
products. proposing an increase in
=. the rate from 50 to-. IS cents on
canadian wheat, which the commits
ssioners declared was necessary to
'cqualize the difference in costs of
production.
y The second suggested an increase
20 AZ cents bushel, and was signed
by Commissioners William s. Gull
,hertson, David ]. Lewis and Edward
Z. Costigan. -
5: There was but one statement OF
data in which the entire commission
Honcurred the differences in the sug-
Eested new tariffs relating TO the
methods of application of the data
obtained. <<.<. -. .s'-
Testimony and Hearings
The entire inquiry into the subject
Of revised tariffs on wheat and wheat
products. as .abetween the United
states and Canada. was undertaken
'91led last fall. on November 26. 1928,
The applicants presented testimony
and public hearings were' held in
february. With the report was a
statement by Chairman Marvin sug-
costing that the scope of the tnvesti-
CATION be limited to wheat aud -four
90 the exclusion of min feeds
President Coolidge issued u proc
'Lamation March Z authorizing an in
crease in the duty on wheat from so
cents per bushel to ~ cents per
bushel, an increase in the duty on
wheat flour semtrofa. crushed or
cracked wheat and similar wheat
products not specially provided for
Erom rs cents per 100 sounds to Sl04
per 100 pounds and a decrease in the
duty on bran, shorts and bX-pfoducts
feeds obtained in milling wheat from
70 per cent. ad/yaiore!n+, to. Z Y per
cent al Valorem. = ~.. = i
Applications of the duties on -four
indicated by the two general state
ments of tho commission weEea$ll1
and $l.O4 respectively. and mil Sfeeds
~ per cent ad valorem, the same as
that indicated in the proclamation of
the President.
The inquiry undertaken by the
commission. to obtain the data on
which the tariffs wotild be revised
was an exhaustive one during which
agents of the commission covered in
their farm cost investigation an area.
Of approximately 100000 square
qailes. Between January % and Feb
ruary Il cost records were obtained
from six companies in Canada in the.
Gpur milling investigation and from
tYenty-one companies in the United
States. representing % and so per
C1nt, OF the total hard spring wheat
!: IF marketihg and tran sportatio
Charges weFss,ea ual, tho. repoEt OF,
Emitted States farmer would. have re-
9eived II cents more than the Cana
dian. Taking into consideration the
tact that hard spring wheat in our
northwestern states is of lower
Grade on the. average than the Cana
dian grain, it appears that the tariff
protection actually received by Amer
aean farmers this year Is approxi-
mately the amount or the DUTY.
!The object of the cost equalization
Contemplated BY section BIS of the
tariff act OF 1922, the commission
said, is that the products of the
American Industry should at least be
yNaced upon a parity with the COM
peting imported foreign products,
Eith the ultimate object the due en-
enlargement of the industries of the
United States. Such encoura cement
however, it added. is intended. to be
brought about by the eStabIi shmen1
oS parity between the American
iAdGstry aus the competing foreign
Industry. This involves that the pro-
teGtion arising from parity of costs
should apply to the bulk of American
production and is not done If d parity
be established between a fraction of
tfe American industry and the i'm
Eirtation which all have to meet.
Nhe absolute qpahtity of products
produced at, each given cost in each
country, the report said, must be
taken into account, as well as the
mere percentage. of each national
total produced at such given cost.
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