Salt Lake Herald | 1905-09-17 | Page 1 | Manufacturers Evaded the Law

EVADED THE HAW 1 I Imported Parts of off Machines Into Argentine at low Lower r of Duty Duly D IY and Assembled the Paris Into Complete ij Machines After Admission 1 1 A I N Sept IS Minister J WASHINGTON W vv Beaupr at t Buenos Dunos Ayres in ac accordance I I I cordano with 1 cabled him by b Acting Secretary of StatS State Loomis I has hliS tho the gf of the pro proposed proposed posed new high rate rt te of duty fluty on 01 agricultural agricultural tural machinery and extra parts partH for Cor re ra repairs I pairs and reports today toda by cable that i the tho tariff bill 1111 has hubn been passed by the Argentine house hous and is pow now before the senate This bill hili provides that thal agricultural agricultural agricultural tural machinery and Implement repair I machinery may be Imported free frea of duty but says that the clause clau in the tIme bill bUl seems ambiguous and roads as aa follows I I I pieces places by which are to be un tood such Buch as aB form torm an integral of ot the tho I machine for which they thy are intended shall enjoy the benefits accorded by this th slaw slawI law lawI I only when they are Imported Importe with the I machine I I It would appear app t that repair pieces not notI I 1 shipped with the machines of ot they the are arean nn nu Integral part will be bo subject to an anad anad anI I I ad valorem duty of 25 26 per cent centI I I The has been Instructed t to bc be b t u sina In hU h efforts to bring i a 11 satisfactory adjustment of the the From Prom some Bomo statements made maae ds tP de department I by b American exporters It Jg J surmised that the purpose df or this n fw Argentine Argentina legislation may be b to atop a t practice which Is said to have hye grown up u of evading larger tariff duties on machines exported to the Argentine republic r bY bv shipping in a large number of parts at a lower rate of ot duty and assembling a these thes parts into complete machines after their i admission Into the countr country r