Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-11-16 | Page 1 | Canada Trade Pact Details to be Listed

CANADA TRADE PACT DETAilS 5 TO BE LISTED Terms of Agreement Will Till Be Published Monday By the Associated Press s sV WASHINGTON ASHINGTON V November 16 16 Terms of the new Canadian Ameri can trade treaty praised by President President President dent Roosevelt as a step toward the economic recovery of both nations nations na na- na- na will be published Monday The agreement was formally signed late yesterday by Secretary Hull and the Canadian premier W. W L. L Mackenzie King with the pr president ident i- i dent his cabinet and a host of lesser officials looking on The signing of oC this agreement Mr MI Roosevelt said marks the reversal reversal reversal re re- re- re versal of the trend of the last two decades toward undue and unnecessary unnecessary unnecessary essary trade barriers between our two countries I I am confident that this constructive constructive constructive con con- step will contribute greatly great great- I ly to the economic recovery of both the United States and Canada The Th-e president explained to re reporters reporters reporters re- re porters porters- that details of the treaty would not be published until Monday Monday Monday Mon Mon- day because it was necessary first to transmit it to Ottawa for release there at the same ti time ie S Already protests have been made by lumber cattle fish and other interests on the strength of anxiety lest the trade pact include sharp reductions in the American tariffs on these commodities At the beginning of negotiations for the treaty last January Canadian Canadian Canadian Ca Ca- nadian officials asked for lor 50 per pel cent cuts in the duties on these items as well as a number of agricultural agricultural agri agri- cultural commodities In exchange Canada offered to tomake tomake tomake make similar concessions on American Ameri Amen can manufactured products Attired in formal clothes Hull Hulland Hulland Hulland and King sat near the president yesterday as they affixed their sig-j sig sig sig- natures The Canadian leader had made his second trip to Washington within a week for the ceremony A week ago his discussions with Mr Roosevelt were instrumental in concluding con con- eluding the treaty SAN FRANCISCO Nov 16 UP California's organized cattlemen joined lumber workers of the Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- chic northwest today in protests against the U. Canadian S. S reciprocal cal trade pact William A. A Freeman president of the California Cattlemen's association association association tion dispatched a protest to President President President dent Roosevelt asserting that compliance compliance com corn with Canadian requests for fora a 50 O per cent reduction in tariffs on cattle and cattle products would work york severe hardship upon American American Ameri Amen can cattlemen and livestock pro pro- In Portland Ore C C. C. C Crow lumber market authority said uncertainty uncertainty un un- un- un certainty over tariff provisions of the tho pact had resulted in virtual suspension of lumber inquiries and purchases there Union lumber workers said forest and mill mUl workers might strike I in protest to an influx of Canadian lumber which might follow fonow reductions reductions in iii duties