DIPLOMATIC DISPUTES

Evening Star, Issue 19661, 14 September 1927, Page 9

DIPLOMATIC DISPUTES

AMERICA'S POSITION ALLEGED INCIPIENT TRADE WAR. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. WASHINGTON, Sepomber 13. (Received Sepeniber 11, at 10.5 a.in.) The United Slates Government _ is said to be faced with an accumulating scries of diplomatic disputes, described in some quarters as an incipient trade war. The major developments include (1) a challenge by the Panama delegate to the League of Nations, of American sovereignty over the canal zone, arising out of Panama's desire to control^ trade in the zone ; (2) tiie French discriminatory tariffs which have increased the duties on some American goods _to 400 per cent.; (3) an agreement with the .British sled producers to pay a rebate to British consumers buying only British steel; (4) Spain, Argentina, and other countries delaying negotiations for most favored national treaties desired by the United States; (5) Brazil, Spain, Chile, Argentina, and other countries objecting to American sanitary embargoes against oranges, potatoes, hay, grapes, and other commodities, as disguised protective tariff walls; and (6) European nations generally refusing to facilitate the work of American Treasury agents investigating foreign production costs, as prowled for in the American tariff laws.