Show AMERICAS CHEAP GOODS Crowding English Products Out of South African Iitarkets Washingtop March 21The English merchants have been startled by the heavy inroads being made by Amen cans into their trade with the British colony of Capetown and there is much talk of a combination to repress this ConsulGeneral Stowe at Capetown in a report to the state department points out some instances of the success of American enterprise in that line of recent re-cent occurrence Two orders for Amer lean rails and tubing amounting to 2500000 have just been placed at a price 20 per cent below British quotations quota-tions and the Scotch makers refusing to make the tubes as long as required the order went to America A large match factory is being erected in Cape town to use American machinery Large siiipments of barbed galvanized wire are being made to Natal by Amer lean manufacturers also at prices 20 per cent below English quotatoins A consignment of 3000 tons of Pocahontas coal from West Virginia has just reached reach-ed CaDetown The consul general warns commercial travelers that the must pay a tax of 4833 in Natal under penalty of heavy fines and imprisonment Samples are subject to duty though they may be admitted under bond In Capetown the commercial traveler is taxed to tho amount of l2166 Johanaeshurg taxes bic3cies 473 yearly and lines a rider on the wrong side of the street 2433 |