THE AMERICAN TARIFF.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1918, 28 November 1913, Page 4

THE AMERICAN TARIFF.

■« NEW ZEALAND EXPORTS AFFECTED. Below is t;iveii n list (prepared by the Customs Department) of those, details' in the American Tariff of 1913 which affect New Zealand articles of export. The corresponding Canadian duties are shown in parentheses;— Oats: (i cents per bushel of .'l2 pounds (7 cents); oatmeal awl rolled oats: 30 cents per 100 pounds (41) cents); butter and butter substitutes: 2J cents per pound (3 cents); checso and substitutes: 20 per cent, ad valorem (2 cents per lb.): hops: 1.6 cents per lb. (4 cents); apples, peaches, quinces, cherries, plums, and pears: 10 cents per bushel of 50 pounds (apples 25 cents per barrel, peaches 07 cents per 1001b., pears and quinces 5 cents per 1001b., cherries 1} cents per lb., plums 20 cents l>or bushel); combed wool or tops and roving or roping made wholly or in part of wool or camel's hair, and on any other wool and hair which have been "advanced" in any manner, or by any process of manufacture beyond tho washed or scoured conditions not specially provided for in .Section 28(1: Eight per cent, ad valorem (wool, 2 cents per lb.); yarns made wholly, or- in chief value, of wool: 18 per cent, ad valorem; yarns (various): 20 per cent (12J per cent, and free); wool and sheepskins with wool thereon: free from Dacomhor 1, 1913 (wool 2 cents per lb., slieepskins free); frozen fish: free (J cent, per lb.); hemp, tow of hemp, hemp hackled : free. There seems to be no special mention of New Zealand phorniium, but. presumably it will be classified along with hemp. (Free.) Kauri guni: free (free); hides of cattle, raw or micured, or dry-salted and pickled: free (free). I Meats: Fresh beef, veiil', mutton, lamb, and pork, bacon, and hams, meats of all kinds prepared or preserved, not specially provided for in Section 545: free. There is a proviso that such meats must conform to certain conditions as to fitness for human food. (.Meats, fresh : 2 cents per lb; moats, preserved (various): 17j per cent, and 12J per cent, ad valorem; 1} cents per lb.). Tallow: free (1.5 per cent, ad valorem). Wheat, wheat Hour: free, provided that the wheat shall be ten cents per bushel, and wheat Hour 45 cents per barrel of UKSIb., when imported from a country which imposes a duly on wheat or wheal flour from tho United State;-.. This will make New Zealand wheat and (lour dutiable, as New Zealand levies i)d. pee l.OOih. on wheat, and Is. per 101)11). oh flour from United States America, (Wheat, 8 cents per bushel; wheat Hour, 40 cents per barrel).