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Show ATTITUDE OF FRANCE NOT TO THEIR LIKING WASHINGTON. Feb. 7. American tariff tar-iff experts do not lv with complacency the probability that the French government govern-ment within the next year will put Into operation a revised tariff which, it Is believed, be-lieved, will have the effect of seriously discriminating against Imports Into France from tho United tSates. Tho condition of trade with Franco, It Is said, is had, even under tho present tariff. -Tho United Slates Ih compelled to pay tho maximum ralo on all of Its Importations, and that Is sufficient In many cases to ho practically prohibitive A verv pertinent fact Is the new French-Canadian French-Canadian treaty. Under this, Canadu Is to receive all of the minimum rates of tho French tariff. This will bo sufficient to causo many American manufacturers to build factories across the Canadian line. So that their product may be sent to France, with the benefit of the low tariff. Government experts believe It absolutely abso-lutely necessary that a. dual tariff bo arranged bv tho United Stales with France, and that not to provide for such a sv.slein, It is argued, will leave the United States helpless and weaponless In any commercial war. |