Evening star., 1935-12-23
Dutch TRADE PACT
TERMSANNOUNCED.
Provision for Increased Pur-
chases of American Wheat
of Major Interest.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Terms of this country's reciprocal
trade agreement with The Neither
lands, signed last Friday and to be-
come effective February l, were made
public yesterday.
OF major interest was a provision
for increased purchases of American
wheat by The Netherlands govern
ment. provided the price meets for
eign competition. The Netherlands
agreed to buy a quantity of wheat
equivalent to at least 5 per cent OF
its domestic consumption, said to rep
resent a substantial increase over past
purchases.
The pact also provides mutual tariff
concessions, involving outright duty
reductions on some commodities, guar
antees to bind" or maintain others
on free lists. and commitments not
to increase duties on others.
American Benefits.
The State Department said Ameri-
can benefits take the form of favor
able quota allocations bindings of
rates of duty on imports, reduction or
abolition of import monopoly fees and,
in the case of wheat and flour, def
mite purchasing undertakings. Bene-
fits assured the products of The
Netherlands and its territories con-
sist entirely of duty reductions or
bindings"
In the treaty, the ninth such pact
clude:
Maintenance on the free list of
cotton, sulphur, copper, turpentine,
rosin, lubricating oil in bulk, squared
fir and pine lumber, rolled oats and
cereal breakfast foods in bulk.
Binding present import duties on
refrigerators and coaling units, type
writer's and calculating machines,
apples, pears, grapefruit, prunes,
raisins, automobiles, trucks tractors
and their engines, tires and tubes,
canned fruits and asparagus, Amer
lean leaf tobacco, salted horse meat
and technical fats.
Monopoly import fees reductions
(seasonally) so per cent on apples
on dried pruneS, raisins and grape
fruit, while the fee is removed en-
tirely on apricot kernels.
Increased or clarified" quotas on
such items as horse meat, Portland
cement. synthetic nitrate, locks and
parts, sheet zinc, iron wire, milled and
polished rice, matches, upper leather,
leather footwear, various textile fab
RIGS, stockings and stocks. knitted
wear, underclothing and shirts.
Tariff Reductions.
Tariff reductions ranging upward
to so per cent of present rates were
granted by the United States on
Dutch products, including:
Cigar wrapper tobacco, flower bulbs,
certain garden and field seeds, cocoa
and chocolate, cocoa butter, potato
starch, Holland gin, broken rice, cleo
trical X-ray apparatus, refined glyc-
crime, favoring extracts. sisal (hemp)
cordage, cabbage, harvest hats, sauer-
kraut, pearl barley, amyl acetate, al
Cohol and fusel oil, laundry soap,
ammonium silicofluoride, caffeine,
prepared chicory, cajeput oil and clay
pipes.
Items bound on the American free
list. which the State Department de-
scribed as the most important type of
concession granted:
Ammonium Sulphate, quinine sui
phate, caraway seeds and caraway oil,
undressed moleskins, palm oil, tapioca,
tapioca flour and cassava, sago and
sago -four, aloes, kapok, unmanufac-
tured sisal, copal, crude gutta percha,
unground pepper, nutmegs, mace and
manufactured rattan.