WOOL FOR AMERICA
INCREASE IN" DUTY
(Received 7th December; 2pm) WASHINGTON, 6th December.
The Senate, has voted several compensatory increases in the wool schedule of the Tariff Bill advocated by the chairman Mr. Reed Smobt, of the finance Committee, as a result of the be-n.-ite s increase of the duty on raw wool from 31 to 34 cents per pound. The duties were raised as follows: Scoui-nd wool, from 34 to 37 cents- per pound; wool on skin, from 29 to 32 cents per pound; sorted or matchhigs wool, trom 32 to 35 cents per pound.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 138, 7 December 1929, Page 9
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96WOOL FOR AMERICA Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 138, 7 December 1929, Page 9
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