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Show TARIFF WAD WITH . GEliUTOD Amicable Settlement Reached of All Questions in Dispute, Save Livestock. MINIMUM FOR MINIMUM. IS BASIS OF AGREEMENT Both Countries View Understanding Under-standing as Advantageous to Their Commercial "Welfare. WASHINGTON. Fob. '.5. Concessions by both the United States and Gormany have averted a threatened tariff war. Negotiations have .been concluded between be-tween the two countries which settle the question of minimum and maximum rates, wilh the exception of the cattlo and dressed meat issue. This was eliminated elim-inated from the presont negotiations and will bo taken up later in separate diplomatic representations. Under tho agreement made today. American minimum Tates will be exchanged ex-changed for the entire minimum list of Germany. The result, is considered advantageous to both countries. The sfate. doiarlment today issued a statement, state-ment, in part as follows: , "By tho understanding arrived, at, there 'will be no tanAF war aud no interruption in-terruption of the enormous commerce passing betweeu the two countries. The magnitude of this business appears from tho statement that in tho calendar year just closed the direct interchange of commodities between Germany and the United Stales exceeded $400,000,000, and. allowances being made for German imimrtations through other countries, the actual volume is probably in excess of .fo00.000.000. American Goods in Germany. "Products of tho United States will icanrnrl Mm fullest OrmOrtUElf.V tO participate in tho constantly-growing business of the German empire. This will bo done on a complete equably with the competing products of other coun- "By the terms of tho commercial agreement which has been in force since 1H07. Germany extended to the United States her conventional or lowest low-est rates on about 100 out of nearly 1000 tariff numbers. These 100 numbers num-bers covered." a large percentage m valuo of tho actual imports from the United States., but. nevertheless, left' many important im-portant commodities of American manufacture man-ufacture at a disadvantage jn competition competi-tion with similar products from other countries'. . . , "This agreement expire? " T estuary 7 Tt was t.ho earnest desire of the German government to reach a solution solu-tion of the questions at issue so that (ho necessary legislation- might bo enacted en-acted to prevent any disturbance of existing ex-isting commercial relations. Tho president presi-dent fully reciprocated this sentiment. No Interruption to Trade. "Tu consequence of the friendly disposition dis-position of both governments, an agreement has been reached under which it will bo possible for the German Ger-man government, with the co-operation of the imperial parliament, to avoid any interrujition of trade and at. the samo time to extend to -the United States, not onlv the rales at -present enioycd, but tho" entire, remaining schedules ot minimum rates now accorded other countries. , , ... "The basis of settlement is that Germanv grants to the United States her full conventional tariff . rates in return for the minimum tariff of the United States. This is an exchange ot minimum for minimum. Tt. places tho United States on exactly the same terms as all other countries to which Germanv grants conventional rates under un-der her various commercial conventions or most favored nations treaties. "In the president's opinion, resjiou-sibilities resjiou-sibilities devolved upon him by the Paync-Aldrich act require him to demand de-mand an agreement from all countries to grant to the United Stales, substan-l.iallr substan-l.iallr their lowest tariff rates. "'It is a source of much gratification gratifica-tion to the. president that Germany finds it possible to extend to the United Snitcs her complete minimum schedules sched-ules without reservation or qualification.' qualifica-tion.' '" . . In Conciliatory Spirit. The statement savs the solution was largely due to tho. conciliatory sjiirit of the German government. Both sides recognized that, while some points of divergence between the two nations would be encountered, their nature was not such as to preclude an agreement that would be beneficial in mutual mar-. kct5. "In return for the concessipn of her, full conventional or lowest rates. Germanv Ger-manv will bo accorded the minimum ! tariff of the United States, " tho statement state-ment coutinues. '"This jiuts Germany in the position of the most favored nation na-tion in her tariff relations with the United Slates. The maximum tariff of the United Stales, which, as tho basic tariff, would otherwise apply after March l- vri). therefore, not go into effect, the minimum being granted in return for Germany's full minimum rates. The rosult is- to give to Germany Ger-many the same assurance under tho United States tariff law that sjie. has secured by her treaties with other countries. coun-tries. All Satisfactorily Explained. "In reaching a settlement some questions ques-tions which had ariscu regarding the administrative features of the Payno-Aldrieh Payno-Aldrieh law and some misconceptions as io a possible unfavorable treatment of German imports into the United States have boon dispelled to the satisfaction of the German government. A collateral col-lateral matter relating to the interpretation inter-pretation nnd application of the pure food law also has beeu explained satis-factorilj'." satis-factorilj'." , . . Tt was President laft s oiunion. says the statement, that, in view of the thorough inspection of pork products, now mado under the United States inspection in-spection law of inOfi. tho hca Ithf ulncss of those products is so fully established estab-lished bofore their exportation that the results of 1 his inspection should be accepted ac-cepted in foreign countrieb. No objection is mado to a microscopic insjiec.t.ioii of their own by foreign countries, but the insistence t on certificates cer-tificates of microscopic inspoction from Continued on Pago Two. I TARIFF WAR WITH I -M GERMANY AVERTED J V":.jr Continued From Pago One. tho United States and the failuro to I ;Hh recognize the present interstate jnspec- V.W tion, which was substituted for it, was J ' n bar to. the admission of. theso products i Aq into some German ports, j 7?jl To Admit American - Pork. ! The reasonableness of this position I tvas recognized bv tho German govqm- ' S&a mcnt. and, under the agreement, the mi- t jSffl porial authorities will take stops to :''m modify the present regulations under Sf which -some ports have rofusod to admit " c'Sb American pork products. 4fl '"IJhQ admission of American live enfc- ' ' '' m c or slaughter in Germany nnd regu; ,:oiSa laiions relating to tho importation of ' ;.'-&2 moat products of various kinds, tho ,('. ) German customs rules govorning tho drawback of dutv allowed on flour whon i 'km exported from Gormany, nil of which j ll IS -"""c of exceeding interest from the I - Mm American standpoint, have been treat- ( ''iV'i m cd on thoir monts as questions entirely aside from that of equivalent tariff ad- fjBffl .iustment," continues tho statement. i tilfi "These questions have now been en- IfcUl tiroly eliminated from tho negotiations. ' ' :( M Tho government of the United States, UN however, will present them separately V.iB hereafter in a diplomatic wa3r to tho i ! Gorman government and the other gov- i bh ernmcnts involved, with tho confident 'J'v y In expectation that tliosc governments will 1 f Id investigate the Amcricun claims fully i th D and fairly in the licht of the existing SR facts.'' ' i, ;'( J Exports and Imports. HI r',e following table shows somo of rffl tho principal articles of importation in- ' iTB Germany from the United States, '' i 'im according to Gorman statistics for the i "B calendar year of 190S: -j Bra au cotton, $91,045,000; copper and t.'?IU manufactures, ...Ton.OOO; wheat, $29,- 1H .123.000; lard, $22,(575,000; mineral oils, Oh m $1S,'I80,000; hides and skins, $9,9JO.000; ' . H wood jnd. manufactures, $9,-152.000; 'K&i m mining machines,. $3,000,000; .dried iYiWm fr- $3,225,000. 'j.'J iffl This table shows some of tho princi fix All V' all'cles f importation into the (9 United States, from Germany, accord- R? I lnc to United States statistics (fiscal a year 1908). Chemicals, etc, $19,366,- i- m 0' cotton manufactures, $18,037,- Nias u O10' I)flPcr nn manufactures. $7,817,- r i'k j 000; silk and manufactures, $7,411,000; -T 1 tovs $0,518,000: furs and manufac- P S lures, $5,515,000; earthenware, etc.. 1 vl'T iffl $5,237,000; iron and steel and mnnu- l' VwF 9 f acturcrt, $4,995,000; beet sugar, F. I 806,000; leather and manufactures, $4,- i So 653,000; wool and manufactures, $4,- T Rt 010,000; hides. $3,415,00.0; fertilizers, ( i jg $3,336,000; rubber and manufactures, I i'B $3,166,000; wood and manufuctureg, k-iM $2,006,000. ' |