The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-03-19
FLEXIBLE TARIFF
RETENTION ASKED
BY WHEAT STATES
Summary of Demands Filed by
Northwest Spring Grain
Area Is Made Public
MANY RATES ARE DOUBLED
Congress Requested to Consider
Transportation Factors
in Competition

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mary of the demands for tariff adj
justment made in behalf Of the
spring wheat states was made public
today by DR.. A. H. Benton, economist
with the North Dakota Agricultural
college, who has been expert adviser
to the tariff committee of the North
west Agricultural foundation. M. w.
Thatcher Of st. Paul, chairman, I. D.
O'Donnell Of Billings. Harry N. Owen
Of Minneapolis, members Of the tariff
committee, as we'll rs DR.. John Lee
Coulter. president Of the foundation,
and DR.. Benton, appeared as wit
nesses at the recent hearings before
the house ways and means committee
in Washington.
The program is the result Of care
full collaboration between the founda-
TONS committee and other commit
tees representing farm groups or
farm organizations such as the Farm
bureau. Farm union, National grange.
National Dairy council. the national
committee on agricultural tariffs. of
which j. S. Montgomery, st. Paul,
is chairman, and others.
Provisions Desired
The summary Of the plea for the
retention of the flexible provisions of
the tariff act. and the schedule of in
creases demanded, in part. follow:
I. That the so-called flexible pro-
visions of the tariff act of 1922,
whereby the president may make
changes in the rate of duty be re-
tanned.
II. That the United States Tariff
commission be provided with facili-
ties for and be directed to make re-
ports on requests for changes in du-
ties without the delay that has Of
ten prevailed in the past.
III. That following part a. Sec
ton 3l5 Co there be added:
go That in ascertaining the cost
of production of domestic agricultural
products with which like foreign
products are competing on domestic
markets, the point of competition
shall be the chief port or ports OF
entry for the foreign produced prod
ucts.
Transportation Considered
t6) That in ascertaining the cost
| of production of domestic agricultural
products and of like foreign agricul-
tural products imported into the
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dncluding storage. handling. AND
overhead and reasonable profits)
from the farms producing these prod
ucts to the point or points of COM
petition shall be included as an item
In the cost of production.
CD That If the cost of production
of domestic agricultural products var.
les at different chief points of en-.
try, the highest Of these several cost!
shall be considered. and used as thu
domestic cost figure. =,
60 That when agricultural prod
ucts which the United States i!
adapted to produce are imported int
the United States to the disadvant'
age of domestic producers of thess
products and cost of production dats
from the importing country cannot b.
secured, the cost of production. TO
these foreign agricultural product
for the purposes Of determining diff
ferences between domestic and for
eign costs may be placed at domesti,
cost of production minus the specific
|,duty or ad valorem duty in effect ant
an additional mount not to excee,
so per cent of the said specific or a,
valorem duty, the actual additions
amount to be determined on the basi
Of the volume Of imports and the de