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Show New Tariff Plan Would Help Our Debtors To Pav Government Expert Showi How ' American Valuation Would Remove Re-move Unfair Cuitomi Discrimination. Discrimin-ation. UNDER the American valuation plan, as proposed in the Pord-ney Pord-ney Tariff bill, an ertial!ziiiif effect upon the commerce of the United States witli all nations with which we trade would be one of t' e first and most desirable results, according ac-cording to William Burgess, memh r of the United States Tariff Commission. Com-mission. ' A simitar article sold in Japan at 50 cents, in Germany at 60 cents, in England for $1, under the present foreign valuation plan means, at a tariff rate of 50 per cent, that Japan would have to pay 25 cents in duty, Germany 30 cepts and England 50 cents. Under the proposed American valuation, Mr. Burgess points put that the importation of this article would cause each of the exporting countries to pay exactly the same amount of duty, regardless of cost of production. Thus, he shows, the present discrimination dis-crimination In favor of low-cost countries would be removed. This tso w.puld rcJu,t m he'P'mr ?ur debtor nations to pay their debts to ui. 'Our debtor nations are Great Britain, France, and Italy. "How are We going to help these natipns to pay their debts by charging charg-ing them a greater amount of duty than we charge Germany and Japan? Mr. Burgess asks. Certain large importing houses and dealers making greater profits on imported im-ported merchandise than they think they can make on domestic goods, are the real opponents of the Ameri-on Ameri-on valuation plan, the tariff expert declares. He answers the argument that American manufacturers could raise llicir prices so as to compel importers o pay a higher amount of duty by ci'ini? the following example: Assuming a foreign article to be worth 70 cents and the American article is selling at $l, it would re-milre re-milre 30 of the American selling price to eoiialire tl)c difference between be-tween the foreign and d.omesti; allies al-lies 'Now, if the American manu- facturer raises his price to $1.25, 30 duty on this value wpuld be 3VA cents, the foreign value ,rcmamj lug at 70 'cents, the landed cost would be 70 cents plus 3714 cents, Which gives the foreign article the advantage advan-tage of tyi centus-In this market. The American almtlon plan places Ian automatic check on American manufacturers doing this very thing. ' Baaa5B. aaaWTKV aaaamlf VlLaW aaaaaaSrFrVi ixBaaKi aaaMw-fMtnaaanT BaBaaaaaBBW Ve9FtI T - KntftkaaaaV TBaaawaty BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBaaUBaV -viaBBalnBBr BaaaaaaaaaaSra'Baa BaaaaaaaaVBBaaaaaatl aaaaBll '!anaaaaaaaaaa! avaVeaaavsHBaaaaBaBaaaaaaaaaal tlMWllU0,ili)Wlll, i nd WMll.rti,MWl.iWWl , f "'""- I fcMW.a.HIIIIIH.dBl,,l Willi. VMfc CpyrgM, Champlali Studio. N, V. WILLIAM BUROES3 Member U. S. Ttlff Coioniltilon Mr. Burgess disputes estimates of increased selling prices of commodities commodi-ties which the Women's Consumers' Committee recently declared would result from application of the provisions pro-visions of the Fortlney tariff bill. The increases were, estimated at from 60 for woolen dress goods to 720 for women's cotton glomes. He says: "Taking their own liguie :i a basis and anpljinji thr rates of the Fordney bill, we find tlwt the onl additional cost to the rcrailer would he the additional amount of duty required re-quired under the Fordney bill, because be-cause all other costs and omheud charges remain the same." The cjiiestion, Mr Burgess con-chides, con-chides, is simply Whether enstonu duties shall continue to be a'.ses'rd upon the foreign marjvfi value rf Roods or upon the' iui lit the United States,. and asks whether it Iseaslerto "obtain information" upon the'r"va!uc from oxer 110 different fu'ieign countries of exportation, with no legal power to fectire nirli values, than h is to get this Information Informa-tion in America will) the full power of the Government t coMpcl k!i information |