Show r 7 NS I IlM lM PROTESTS 1 TO JA TARIFF lff BILL DIU t Spain pain i Opposes S. S Proposed InC Increase ty ase on r JiW J i t l Cork Cork- Imports Imports' r r 5 WASHINGTON WASHINGTON N July 16 Awo- Awo d Spain Italy and Sweden Sweden have hivo sent additional repe- repe to tho the state tat department regarding American tariff prop proposals saTs eri ri n b behalf h if of tho the respective govern- govern m mints and ind nd trade trado as associations i t ok The he communications communication made pu public pubIc Uc 19 today ay by the sena senate senate- finance corn noted exceptions particularly of of proposed duty In Increases re es In the h house use bill on ste steel products l-products and cork and d general imports from tram Italy A 4 A note from rom the tho Italian n 41 declared If It congress adopted the bill as ns a J passed by th the house t thodI 1 d re t. t effect can cnn but only diminish Italy's purchases ui- ui hases of ot agricultural products and d other raw materials In this American m market mark t a and consequently consequently con- con Imp Impair lr Italy's International t nal economic c n m e position POINTS TO IMPORTS S Th The ambassador de declared lared Imports fi from m Italy t to the United States Hardly ardly reach two per cent o of at th the ii aggregate American Imports and that thal such a small percentage would hardi hardly Justify any claim of or unbearable r able alle le competition The Spanish ambassador who re- re submitted a a. no note to from froin his 10 government nt threatening denounce trien of or the commercial m modus dus vIndI vl- vl vendi endl between tho the United States and n Spain should certain house I rat rates a s' s be adopted declared in a s. supplemental supplemental sup sup- pl memorandum that the theP P proposed Increase In In duty on n cork was wms great enough to reduce th thc the c consumption of oC this article S Spain's principal export to the the United States since the the Industry will tt try to find a clit cheaper aper substitute and and- the Spanish SpanIel exporting business will ther thereby hy be markedly injured EM EMBARGO CLAIM A communication on from the Swed wed wed- ish sti minister r transmitted ai al protest fr from m th the Swedish Iron misters masters as as- as declaring the tho pro proposed sed In Increase Increase In- In crease in in duty on hollow drill s steel sel el was equivalent to to- toan ah an an embargos embargo as asfar as' as f far r as Sweden was waft concerned inasmuch in In as s by t fur far l tho the main part art of ot the hollow drill steel Imported b by bythe bythe the United States States' comes from Swe Swe- den t n. n Swedish w v dish steels it was contended do not compete upon a 0 price basis With the dom domestic product and is Imported by the United 1 Stats States be because beuse be- be cause use of its superior supe or quality |