Show UM RATES DATES I j fOR CANADA R Frost Prost Taft Signs Proclamation If Granting Them Theme Thus Thu Avoiding A Possible Controversy i r g ii MAY BE FURTHER AGREEMENT I 1 3 l I I h It 31 n Hersh lien pmt but WH W March Much Tb procla proclamation i mation malion of the president ranting thi th Iho i minimum rate of taste tariff tan Ilder h he act to Canada and Ind a number of hew Ie ant nl nt lally ly d today cos the Ih extension of ut the countr t minimum rate rat to tile the whole wOld About AbI ut nation and dependence a i In the tho lilt flit The work Kurk urk Involved In determining whether any Iny of the lb nation Ui In include ludd in ID e lung long lint Ilat lI t were discriminating dla m their against the th United States ha JI leai occupied oc tar tn attention of UM tile officers Mete u rs or ur tile ter K almost al eon con t IW u lat last t August A I Following thi th h r or Of u ua a complete tariff agreement t with Uh it today It I Is II that In lr id d I Tall Tatt has huo Invited Canadian ml mla a conference t looking tu to queer I tiu between the two mum und and to tu a II general of In du Ut Ju TIle The presidents Initiation imitation to I main 4 mainI L I In to un an exchange xi o ut or nut nutt H l I In Iii n Becy u ut relate Knox Knus und arid tV t c government The note not c clee ex c I lee a lion at the happy huly t ter Ir r of ot the tarl negotiations ono oral nl the hope that the way nuy hes hi h hn keen n opened fur for or an early tor t toil oil all difference 1 between the th t two o guv 10 Including the th trouble U u of 0 the tilt water b boundary Un Tire The note nute then than th the belief the ih time tl I Is ripe rt for tor a tIn In to tax t betterment of ot trade trad relation relations bi be b between tween the two conn trie STORY OF 0 NEGOTIATIONS I a 1 The unofficial story of the tlona with Canada looking to the th tai et announced today by which Canada la declared entitled to the I minimum rates rat of ot the haw luw U le perhaps more Interesting titan man manthe the th P ln announcement a as to Jut Jot I what are re Included In the con COD 1 4 e granted on either Ids aide Taft Tatt from the first did not to n let It be bet known that he h hould would go 0 Ii a i long way to t avoid a tariff war ur with Canada and Such Buch a war he be be believed I II would fall heavily ups upon Amerl en n milreal and manufacturer U It was 11 the th president who ho took the th Initia mottle Initiative I Ith the tive th In Inviting Finance 3 tr Field ng III II to In Albany to discus the thO difference between the two to The Th ex exchange x change of ot view at Albany wa wai such uch HI ae u to Indicate that peace was waa Th charge hr that Canada was waa au unduly discriminatory against the United platen originally grew out of ot the Ca Canadian a radian nadian treaty with Prance France whereby the Ih latter country wee waa given Riven a redu tion Uon of or from m 2 to 5 6 I per rent cent nt President dent Tuft Taft till old Iii not take the th view vi that thoAt was dim Inasmuch ae 11 Prance France Fran In return offered to Canada n a reduction of ot rates The United Unit Stales never offered eo to Canada sanada Mr Tuft Taft nold noli could out not expect al such euch l Ieter treatment on the other side lid Then Th stood In the tho th way however the fart fact that reduction granted by Cana Canasta Canada da sta to tn France F were automatically ap applied plied to IS 17 other othu countries Included In Uret Britain favored nation policy polly This tb tile the president held did amount to iii against the United President J Taft made the Ibe proportion that thai Canada Cando would be absolved front from undue against the United State Stat It If this country nn were w re a 2 per cent reduction rt on the artl les with with Ith which firms compete with the favored nations In Inthe Inthe Inthe the Canadian market markt The MIe Dominion Domini lh ei i nind government finally agreed Hd to e and andon on these th lame term the was na w reached Thus Thue while the reduction actually apply only to something like S 2 per r cent nl of ot American export the tM large tene part pert of ot the th export are In noncompetitive eludes el where whre America Amerie have th the market anyway ny Canada anad conceded 1 IS 17 numbers number to In Ih the the thirteenth l 1 lIng be United States Stat or omnibus Ing ml In a dance which a R host hool h t among which cotton cottonseed of ot article Heed of oC the tile heaviest ox ex oxA export seed ol all to le one OM m ports port portA A As to tn wool wood pulp and print paper I on criticism ha has been Mee n love Je at t the J It was war a stated elated at attI atthe the tI White nou H UM b tolu duy that th sr Items Item did not and IK r i uM Uld not nol enter Into the negotiations The Th rates and terms ot or duty duly on tt wood ond and anil nd wad pulp Are fixed In the tariff law and cannot annot be I Imade made the subject aub t of ot negotiation on 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