UNITED STATES TARIFF.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1901, 8 November 1913, Page 3

UNITED STATES TARIFF.

REVIEW OF NEW LAW. CHANGES IN COTTON AND WOOLLEN GOODS.' An interesting review of the now United States Tariff, as it emerged from the conference of both Houses of tho Legislature—it has since been signed practically unaltered—appoars in a recent issue of tho "Manchester Guardian." When signed by the President tho duties became at once effective, with the exception of the changes in raw sugar, which do not come into force until Maroh 1, 1914 (and after May 1, 1916, sugur becomes duty free). Raw wool remains dutiable until December 1, 1913, then becoming free, and the old duties on woollen manufactures are retained, until January 1, 1914, when the new rates come into force. Very few of tho old rates of duty have been left untouched, and few of the changes made have been other than in a downward direotion, while there have been numerous and some notable additions to the freo list besides raw wool, already mentioned. Among these are agricultural implements, cotton gins, and machinery for manufacture of sugar, bagging for ootton, flax straw and flax tow, hemp and hemp tow, iron ore, pig iron, ferro-manganeso and scarp iron, cut nails and pikes of iron or steel, railway bars, barbed Wire, openhearth steel ingots and blooms, wheat, wheat flour, meats and live animals for human food, potatoes, salt, boots and shoes ; harness and saddlery, common printing paper, cash registers, linotype and type-setting machines. In the new tariff and ad valorem basis has been largely adopted—entirely so in some schedule, where in the old tariff the duties were mostly specifio or specfio and ad valorem. There have further been marked alterations in classifications, descriptions, etc., so that comparisons of new duties with old duties oannot be made in many instances with any precision, and estimates of average duties very considerably.

The textile schedules are more affected by such changes than other schedules, and estimates that the average rate of duty on manufacture's of cotton has been reduced about 15 per cent, on manufactures of wool about 30 per cent, of silk about 16 per cent, and of flax about 20 per cent, are not uniformly adopted. The following are the chief "provisions of the textile schedules (duties under the old tariffs are given in brackets, and (-) indicates no comparisons can be accurately given):— Cotton Yarns.

Paragraph 255. —Cotton thread and carded yarn, warps or warp yarn, whether on,beams or in bundles, skeins, or cops, or in any other form, not combed, bleached, dyed, mercerised, or coloured, except spool thread or cotton, crochet, darning, and embroidery cottons, hereinafter provided for, shall be subject to the following rates of duty:— Numbers up to and including No. 9, 5 per oent. ad valorem; exoeeaing No. 9 and not exceeding No. 19, 7} per cent, ad valorem: exceeding No. 19 and not exceeding No. 39, 10 per cent, ad valorem ; exceeding No. 39 and not exceeding No. 49, 15 per cent, ad valorem; exceeding No. 49 and not exceeding No. 59, 17i per cent, ad valorem; exceeding No. 59 and not exceeding No. 79, 20 per cent, ad valorem; exceeding No. 79 and not exceeding No. 99, 22} per cent, ad valorem; exceeding No. 99, 25 per cent, ad valorem.

When combed, bleached, dyed, mercerised, or coloured, shall oo subject to the following rates of duty Numbers up to and including No. 9, 7$ per cent, ad valorem; exceeding No. 9 and not exceeding No. 19* 10 per cent, ad valorem exceeding No. 19 and not exceeding No. 39, 12$ per cent, ad valorem: exceeding No. 39, 12} per cent, aa valorem; exceeding No. 39 and not exceeding -No.- 49, 17J per cent. .; ad valorem: exceeding No. 49 and not exceeding No. 69, 20 per cent, ad valorem; exoeeding No. 69 and not exceeding No. 79, 22£ per cent, ad valorem; exceeding No. 79 and not exceeding No. 99, 25 per cent, ad valorem; exceeding No. 99,-274 per cent, ad valorem. . (The foregoing are calculated to '.average 24.01 per cent, ad valorem, against calculated average old tariff of 31.54 per cent, ad valorem.) Cotton card laps, roping, silver, or roving, 5 per cent, ad valorem (35 per oent. ad valorem), cotton waste ana flocks, manufactured or otherwise advanced in value, 6 per pent, ad valorem (20 per cent, ad valorem).

Paragraph 256.—5p00l thread of cotton, crochet, v darning, and embroidery cottons, on spools, reels, or balls, or in skeins, cones, or tubes, or in any other form, 15 per cent, ad valorem (average old tariff 22.95 per cent, ad valorem). Cotton Cloth. Paragraph 257.—Cotton cloth, not bleached, dyed, coloured, stained, painted, printed, woven-figured, or mercerised, containing yani tho average number of which does not exceed No. 9, 7} per cent, ad valorem ; exceeding No. 9 and not exceeding No. 19, 10 per cent, ad valorem: exceeding No. 19 and not exceeding No. 39, 12} per cent, ad valorem: exceeding No. 39 and not exceeding No. 49, 17i por cent, ad valorem; exceeding No. 48 and not exceeding No. 59, 20 per cent, ad valorem; exceeding No. 59 and not exceeding No. 79, 221 per cent, ad valorem; exceeding No. 79 and not exceeding No. 39, 25 por cent, ad valorem; exceeding N0.'99, 27} per cent, ad valorem. Cotton cloth when bleached, dyed, colonred, stained, painted, printed, woven-figured, or mercerised, containing. yarn the average number of which does not exceed No. 9, 10 per cent, ad valorem;, exceeding No. 9 and not exceeding No. 19, 12} per cent, ad valorem; exceeding No. 19 and not exceeding No. 39,. 15 per cent, ad valorem ; exceeding No. 49 and not exceeding No. 59, 22} per cent, ad valorem; exceeding No. 59 and not exceeding No. 79, 25 per cont. ad valorem; exceeding No. 79,- and not exceeding No. 99, 27} per cent, ad valorem; exceeding N0..99, 30 per cent, ad,valorem; plain_gauze or

leno woven cotton nets or nettings shall be classified for duty as ootton cloth. (The foregoing are calculated to average 30.07 per cent, ad valorem, against calculated average old tariff of 42.74 per cent, ad valorem.) Woollen Coods. Paragraph 295. —Combed wool or tops and roving or roping made wholly or in part of wool or camel's hair, and on other wool and hair which have been advanced in any manner or by any process of manufacture beyond the washed or scoured condition, not specially provided for in this section, 8 per cent, ad valorem. . „ Paragraph 290.—Yarns made wholly or in chief of wool, 18 per cent, ad valorem (average old tariff 79.84 per cent, ad valorem). Paragraph 297 —Cloths, knit fabrics, felts not woven, and all manufactures of every description made, by any process, wholly or in ohief value of wool, not specially provided for in this section 35 nor cent, ad valorem; cloths if l made in chief value of cattle hair or 1 horse hair, not specially provided for in this section, 25 per oent. ad valorem; nlushes, velvets, and all other pile fabrics, out or uncut woven or knit Whether or not the pile 1 covers the entiro .surface, or j 3 made wholly or chiefly of wool and articles made wholly or m chief ™lue of such plushes velvets, or pile fnbrics. 40 per cent, ad valorem; stockiS hose/and hnlf-hoso se vedged, fashioned, narrowed, or shaped wholly p't in part hv knitting machines or frames or knit'by hand, including such as arc commercially known as seamless stockings, hose, and half-hose, and clocked"' stockings, hose and half hose, cloves and. mittens, all of the above. oompoßsd whollr or in chief vnluS oi

wool, if valued at not more than 1.20 dollars per dozen pairs, 30 per cent, ad valorem; if valued at more than 1.20 age old tariff 72.69 per cent, (ad valorem; press cloths composed of camel's hair, not specially provided for in this section, 10 per cent, ad valorem. Paragraph 298. —Blankets and flannels, composed wholly or in chief value of wool, 25 per cent, ad valorem (average. old tariff 72.69 per cent, ad valorem); flannels composed wholly or m chief value of wool, valued at above SO cents per pound, 30 per cent, ad valorem (93.39 per cent, ad valorem). Paragraph 299. —Women's and children's dress goods, coat linings, Italian cloths, bunting, and goods of similar description and character, composed wholly or in chief value of wool, und not specially provided for in this section, 35 per cent, ad valorem 'average eld tariff 99.70 per cent, ad valorem).

Silk Fabrics and Chemicals. Paragraph 326. —Woven fabrics, ■ in the piece or otherwise, of which silk is tho component material of chief value, and all manufactures of silk, or of which silk or silk and india-rubber are the component materials of chief value, not specially provided for in this section, 45 per cent, ad valorem (average old tariff 54.89 per cent, ad valorem). In the chemical schedule noticeable i eductions . are . bleaching powder or chloride of lime, l-ioth cent, per pound, against previous l*sth cent), enamel, paints, 15 per cent., against 30 per cent., acids and alkalies are reduced by 40 to 50 per cent in many instances, and ammonia by about 40 per cent, Earth* enwaro averages about 30 per cent,, and glass and glassware about 25 per cent, lower than in old tariff.