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Show DENMARK HAS BEEN OVERHAULING HER TARIFF Special Cnble to The Tribune COPENHAGEN. Feb. 12. Denmark, like other countries, has been overhauling overhaul-ing her tariff. She has never had a high tariff, hue favored one more like the fiscal tariff of Holland, though her average aver-age scale of duties was a little higher. Unlike most other countries, her tariff of last July Is drawn with a strong- tendency ten-dency to free trade.- So far the elToct has been a decrease in revenue. She cannot exclude, under her tariff. Imports of American beef in any form, packed or canned. She takes from the United States chielly corn, feeding stuff, petroleum petro-leum and machinery. She also takes oleomargarine, which she sends back in manufactured butter, her own real butter being excluded, except in small quantities, quanti-ties, by a duty of 0 cents a pound placed upon its import here. This and the cost of a cent n pound for freight, etc., added to the price' of P.I cents, which it fetches In the English market, makes -II cent, a price that is really prohibitive In this market. She sends to tho United States hides, some re-exports, seeds, pebbles for cement, and potato flour. |