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Show HOLLAND PAYS HIGHLY FOR AMERICAN DAINTIES Rt'tTTKRLii i.M . Dec. 6. The high prices charged in Holland and aomi j other European countries for American Ameri-can automobiles and other commodities commodi-ties are. in the opinion of American authorities here, exerting a very bad effect on tho foreign export of the I'nited States. It is und rstood that Consul (ieneral Anderson has made the matter the subject ,.f an official rc- iport to the state department. Automobiles selling at retail In the United States for, perhaps, $5,000 are shipped to Holland al a freight cost (hardly ever exceeding $200 and then are sold hero for the equivalent of .about $7,000. even when the low value f the Dutch exchange is considered. Thp import duty is only five percent This exacting or profits, official assay. Is certain tp work against sales of American automobiles In the future The same holds true with American canned goods, tobacco, etc a tin of American canned corn, retailed for about 20 cents In the United States, Is sold In Holland at the guhlet equivalent equiva-lent of SO cents. Various food products from the Culled States now appear in great quantities on the shelves of merchants at The Hague. Amsterdam and Rotterdam, Rotter-dam, but the prices are almost always so high that only the very wealthy jean buy them. |