Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-03
FIRST CARLOAD GRAPEFRUIT BILLED
France, u. S. In
Tariff Deadlock

PARIS. Oct. 3.-lFj-Franee and
the United States appeared dead
locked in their negotiations for
settlement of the pending tariff
controversy.
Publication today Of aide mem
oires exchanged recently indicate
that France continued to demand as
surances Of reciprocity in the ne
gotiaticns while Washington, in its
aide memoire delivered at the Quai
D'Orsay last week insists upon most
favored nation treatment.
France, in her latest aide memoire
on the tariff made public today.
again presents the principle Of re-
ciproeity in the negotiation of Gus
toms. She does not complain Of be-
ing Disseminated against by the
United States, but does contend that
she suffers at the same time as 9TH
er states from n restrictive regime
her production, affects her more
which because of the character Of
than the others.
The latest French aide memoire,
dated September 80, was made public
at the same time as the French aide
memoire dated September Is and the
American reply.
Object to 1921 figure
1t rejects the figures cf the 1921
export trade as proper basis Of
comparison because France was then
suffering, it declares. from devas-
tation and was incapable Of export
ing normally. These 1921 figures
were used in the American memcran-
dun as the basis Of a comparison
showing that France was exporting
more than she was then.
The September 80 memoire says
that il French exports had not suf-
fered regrettable restriction since
1918 by the high rates Of the Ford
ney Tariff and by the manner in
which these rates were applied, the
export figures of Sl36y 900 600 in 1913
should have risen 70 100000, 900 in
1916 instead of the $l52, 900, ,00a that
was reached.
The document says further that
France already has shown a dispo-
sition to modify her rates recently
incre ased TO the detriment Of part
OF American exports and is disposed
to consider other notifications il
the American government does not
refuse TO examine within the frame
work Of its own legislation "the just
complaints of French exporters"
The essence os the first French
memorandum made public today is
that France is willing to negotiate
with the United States on the basis
of reciprocity, the text thus full
filling published summaries. and
that as soon as the Washington gov
ernment would agree to that as the
basis Of negotiations, France would
reduce her rates of August 80 fifty
per cent.
U. s. Asks Uniformity
To this the American government
replied with the statement that
while the tariff rates imposed by
France are questions of interior pol
itics, the United States considers
that protests are justified when
French rates are not applied equally
90 all countries. This insistence
upon equality is the basis of the
entire American memorandum. which
recalls that the rates Of the French
general and minimum tariffs were
provided with a view Of negotiation
treaties of commerce with q suffi-
cieat margin to furnish compensation
for the advantages wanted.
The American tariff involves no
Such narCinx for harOainirO The
American reply says. The absence Of
discrimination, il declares, is the
fundamental prinsiple Of friendly
commercial relations. The American
tariff laws. il adds, admit of no
discrimination with the products
Of different countries, while CON-
mercial discrimination against the
United States practically has ceased.
The world over. France being the
only country at the present time
which seriously discriminates against
American products.