TARIFF FRAUDS.
CABLE JEWS.
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph l Copyright
SYSTEMATIC UNDERVALUATION OF GOODS.
HEAVY BRIBES FOR EVADING CUSTOMS.
Received December 22, 8.8 a.m,
NEW YORK, December 21
The committee which is enquiring into the American tariff discovered that the Treasury is losing enormously thz'ough the systematic undervaluation of good 3, especially on the part of Germany, Switzerland and Japan. The Government appraiser admits that the British valuations are the most honest in the world. The United States asked the European Governments to compel exporters to make valuations on oath. All agreed except Germany.
One witness declared that a New York lawyer received a fee of £16,000, and another of £50,000, for suggesting means of evading Customs duties on two individual shipments.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3077, 23 December 1908, Page 5
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123TARIFF FRAUDS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3077, 23 December 1908, Page 5
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