The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-10-01
FRANCE WANTS
PRINCIPLE OF
RECIPROCITY.
United States Government In
sists Upon Most Favored
Nation Treatment
1921 FIGURES REJECTED
American Note Asks Suspen-
sion of Discrimination Dur
ing Negotiations
1921 FIGURES REJECTED

Paris, Oct. 3.--(AP)-France and 81
the United States appear dcadlocked 3
in their negotiations for settlement
Of the pending tariff controversy.
Publication Of aide memories,
exchanged recently, indicate that
France continues to demand assur-
ances Of reciprocity in the negotia-
tions while Washington, in it's aide
mcmoirc delivered at the Qua dor
say last week, insists upon most ia
vored nation treatment.
France, in her latest aide memoire
on the tariff, made public today, ~
again presents the principle of reci-l.
proclty i'll the negotiation of customs
treaties. She does not complain ofrs
being Disseminated against by theli
United States, but does contend that.1
she suffers at the same time ass
other states from a restrictive res
glme which, because of the character
of her production, affects her more
than the others.
The latest French aide memoire,,
dated September 80, was made pub
lie at the same time as the French,
aide memoire, dated September 1916.
and the American reply.
NcJectS lSZl Figures
1t rejects the figures of the 1921
export trade as proper basis Of Il
comparison because France wasaa
then suffering, it declares, from)u
devastation and was incapable of ex-n5
porting normally. These 1921 fig-o
ures were used in the Americanlt
memorandum as the basis of com-l1
parison showing that France was ext
porting more now than she was1j
then.
The September 30 memoire saws
that II French exports had not suf-
Tered regrettable restriction since
1913 by the high rates of the Ford
ney tariff and by the manner in
which these rates were applied, the
export figures of $l36, 100000 I'M:
1913 should have risen to $2OO,O00,-
600 IN 1926, instead of the $751;
OOO,OO0 that was reached.
The document says further that
France already has shown a DISPOSE
ton to modify her rates recently ill.,
creased to the detriment Of part of
American exports and is disposed to
consider other notifications if the
american government does not re-
fuse to examine within the frame
work OF its own legislation ''the just
complaints OF French exporters"
Insists on Reciprocity
The essence of 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 fulfill
ing published summaries, and that
as soon as the Washington governs
ment would agree to that as the
basis OF negotiations, France would
reduce her rates Of August 80, 50
per cent.
TO this the American government
replied with the statement that while
the tariff rates imposed by France
are questions of interior politics, the
United States considers that pro-
tests are justified when French
rates are not applied equally to all
countries. This insistence upon
equality is the basis Of the entire
american memorandum which rel
calls that the rates Of the French
general and minimum tariffs are
PROVIDED with view OF negotiating
treaties OF commerce with q suffi]
cient margin to furnish compensa;
tlon Tor the advantages wanted.
Americas Reply
4he American tariff involves nd
such margins for bargaining, tho
American reply says. The absence
Of discrimination, it declares, is thu
principal Of friendl,
commercial relations. The Ameril
can tariff law, it adds, admits Of nd
between the prodS
ucts OF dltterent countries, while
commercial discrimination agains
the United States practically ha:
ceased the old over, France beine
the only country at the presen'
time which seriously discriminate
az sinst American products.
The American note terminateA
with the hope that France will con,
slider that the real solution of thu
controversy consists on the one hant
N negotiating a treaty guaranteeing
he United States most favored nar
Ion treatment and on the other hand
suspending during the negotiationl
me discrimination practiced againsv
American products.
The latest French document. datet
September 80, while admitting tina
here IS no discrimination in rate
n the American tariff asserts tina
The system amounts to that 50 fass
IS the products of France are con
.erned because, the French repl
says, these products are hardest hi
7 is this argument with which
france supports the demand TO-