UNITED STATES TARIFF
HOUSE APPROVES INCREASE ON WOOL Reed. 10 a.m. WASHINGTON. Fri. The Senate voted for several compensatory increases in the wool schedule of the Tariff Bill advocated by Chairman Reed Smoot, of the Finance Committee. As a result of the Senate’s increase of the raw wool duty from 31 to 34 cents a pound, the duties were raised as follow: —Scoured wool, from 34 cents to 37 cents a pound: wool on the skin, from 29 to 33 cents a pound: sorted or matchings wool, from 32 to 35 cents a pound.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 840, 7 December 1929, Page 11
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94UNITED STATES TARIFF Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 840, 7 December 1929, Page 11
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