Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-08-15 | Page 1 | New Cuban Pact Will Aid U. S. Sugar Refiners

FiEW n NEW CUBAN PACT WILL ILL AID U. U S. S SUGAR REFINERS i Gre Greater ate Tariff 1 Protection Prote tion to toBe Be i i I S Given Americans No Change to Be Made Mad in Hawaiian Q Quotas ot s Roosevelt Roosevelt Says Date of Signature of or I Document Is Uncertain t By Et United Press WASHINGTON Aug 15 President 15 President Roosevelt today in in- that domestic sugar refiners will be pe given greater eat I tarl tariff ariff protection under the new commercial tre treaty ty with Cuba against sugar refined in Cuba The president also indicated that there would be no change in the Hawaiian sugar quotas This word came as as the Island s sugar gar planters' planters counsel conferred here preparatory preparatory pre pre- para tory to challenging the quotas in the supreme cou court t. t The president said several Ameri Arneri American can refiners had appealed to him to have written into the new treaty a provision for decreasing the tariff preferential In favor of Cuban refined refined re re- fined tined sugar sugar in order that more sugar may be refined refined in this country Th This S will wilt be taken care of the president said in the new treaty reaty Under the present tariff provisions both Cuban raw sugar and sugar r re refined refined fined In inC Cuba ba have a 20 per cent ta tariff i preferential in this country The domestic refiners have complained that this actually puts puls a tariff premium premi premi- um urn on Cuban raw sugar imported into this country to be processed b by- by American refiners They explained that it requires pounds of raw sugar to make pounds of re rc refined fined sugar Under the present pre pret preferential arrangement domestic refiners refiners re- re finers liners pay pay duty ty on pounds of ra raw raw- a sugar sugar- to obtain pounds of refined refined refined re re- re- re fined whereas refiners in Cuba pay duty only on the pounds of r ro- ro fined sugar This gives them approximately 7 per cent tariff ad advantage antage over American refineries the latte protested The president would give no int inti intimation mation as t to the date when the new treaty vi would uld be signed He said h he had had- hada a synopsis of the treaty on his bIs desk but bur hadnot had bad time to study it A few w m minor points in irs the treaty still ar are being negotiated he be said