RECIPROCITY
CABLE NEWS
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CANADA AND UNITED STATES. DETAILS OF ARRANGEMENT. Rec3ived This Morning, 12.30 o'clock. OTTAWA, January 27. Mr Fielding, Minister for Finance, made ail announcement in. the House of Con re oiks regarding the reciprocity arrangement with the United States. He said that wheat and other grains, dairy products, fresh fruits, fish, eggs, poultry, cattle, sheep arid 1 * vegetables would bo reciprocally free. Canada places on the free list cotton seed and oil, .and the United States free lists will include lumber. Canada removes the restrictions on the exportation of pulpwood, raw material, whilst mica, gypsum, etc., will be made free. The rates on secondary food pioducts have been reduced also on an extensive list of manufactures. Canada lowers her tariff on agricultural machinery. NEW YORK, January 27. President Taft's message to Congress expresses the belief that the reciprocity agreement will materially reduce the cost of living in the United States and emphasises the fact that friendship with Canada will be drawn closer, following a tightening of the commercial bonds. The financial gain was not the only result desirable. Finally President Taft says: "Canada has cost us nothing in the. way of preparations for defence against her possible assault, and she never will. *She has sought to agree with us quickly when differences Jiave disturbed our relations'."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10150, 28 January 1911, Page 5
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224RECIPROCITY Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10150, 28 January 1911, Page 5
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