Evening star., 1935-11-20
EFFECT Of CANADA
PACT SCRUT|N|zED.
Peek Prepares for Survey of
Results as G. O. P. De.
nounces Treaty.

business interests tDhen the tariff
minded Republican party stepped
out of poUer in 1888. In the Spring
!. of 1884, despite administration foes.
bill authorizing the President to
:. negotiate trade treaties and to alter
:: tariff rates Without reDiew by Sem
: ate, became t1U.
Ttuo tUeeks ago. Prime Minister
-, King OF Canada drriued in Wash
= inqton, conferred NTH President
:. Roosevelt, hurriedly returned to Ot-
:. tu,ua. On ArmiStice day, President
Roosepelt announced completion OF
: good neighbor" treaty iDlth Can
= ada. The OttdDd Parliament rdti-
fled. The teTt 1Uas made public.
Business Interests are divided IN
. their reaction.
= George Peek, special adviser to
President Roosevelt on foreign trade,
began preparations today for COM
prehensive survey to determine the
effect on commerce of the new tariff
reduction treaty with Canada.
Meanwhile Republicans denounced
the pact and State Deartment Of
:ficials lauded it as step toward
: elimination of world trade deterrents,
: without which. Secretary Hull said,
there can be no permanent world
economic recovery.
Plans for the survey were an
: nounced by the President at his semi
weekly press conference late yester-
!" day. Just previously the President
was in conference with Peek. who
= told him he would have full report
ready when Mr. Roosevelt returns
from his Warm Springs Thanksgiving
trip.
Hoover Leads Attack.
Former President Hoover led the
Republican attack on the treaty with
a statement in Chicago that the pact
brings hardship to hundreds Of thou
sands of dairy and other farmers, "
adding: Il presume it Is more Of
the abundant life-for Canadians"
F. At Republican Western headquar-
ters, also in Chicago, Harrison
q Spangler tagged the agreement step
!. toward free trade" and called for a
referendum before it is made ef-
. fective. Senator Vandenberg, Repub-
a.. Hcan, OF Michigan was satirically
critical. He said:
r we are bound to get the worst
. of it under our so-called most ia
vored nation practice, because we
. must give all these Canadian benefits
4. TO 80 other nations from which we
get nothing in return"
Secretary Hulfs praise of the treaty
was contained in a brief message to
the National Foreign Trade Council,
meeting at Houston, Tex. He re-
ported growing realization that trade
barriers must be leveled and con-
tended that reciprocal tariff conces-
sions tended toward general reduc-
ton of import levies.
Speedy Tabulation Arranged.
The customs service, in order to
keep an accurate check on imports
and exports under the new treaty, is
creating a new high speed tabuIating
system which will be centralized in
Washington with telegraphic fingers
reaching to Canada and various bor-
der points.
The greatest difficulty lay in the
pact's establishment of new and re-
duced tariff rates on several COM
modities, to be collected until a speci-
fically stipulated quantity has been
received, then the old rates would be
restored.
Consequently, the treaty gave the
Customs Bureau a laborious task of
bookkeeping. requiring deluge of re-
ports from ports of entry, which must
be tabulated promptly and totalled, so
that the specified quota may not be
exceeded
Letters of instruction were under
preparation today setting forth the
new schedules in detail
Separate forms will be prepared for
reports on quota goods. At first, re-
ports will be made daily by mail But
when receipts approach the quota
limit, telegraphic reports will be Or
dered.
Items for Special Checks.
The items on which special checks
will be required:
CdttIe ana caves on which reduced
duties apply to not more than three
,tourths of per cent or one-fourth of
per cent, respectively, Of the domes-
tic slaughter.
Coys on which the tariff cut
reaches only 10000 head.
; Cream, on which the duty reduction
applies to 100000 gallons annually.
Seed potatoes which benefit to $780,
600 bushels.
Douglas fir and Western hemlock
on which a 250,000, ,000- board foot
limit is placed for the lower rate.
Shingles, which come in free, but
are limited to an entry of Is per cent
of the domestic cnns1lrnntion