A TRADE WAR.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 768, 17 March 1910, Page 5

A TRADE WAR.

UNITED STATES AND CANADA. THE TAEIEF QUESTION. By Teleerajh—Press Association—OoDitlEbL (Rec. March 16, 9.20 p.m.) Ottawa, March 16. While shrewd observers in Washington are still hopeful that President Taft will yield to the advice of the Commissioners sent to Canada, the authorities at Ottawa apprehend that a trade war with America is imminent. It is stated that if America imposes the maximum, Canada will reply with a surtax of thirty-three and a third per cent., and prohibit the export of pulp wood and wood pulp.

THE PAYNE TARIFF.

The New York correspondent of the "Times," writing in December last, statedlndicative of the feeling with which many Americans regard tlie possibility of a tariif war with Canada is the announcement that Mr. Mann, Chair? man of the House Committee on InterState and Foreign Commerce, intends to propose , a series of amendments to the Payne Law in order .to remove the danger. Mr. Mann thinks that the country may" well be alarmed at the prospect of hostilities, which he attributes primarily to the rates on wood pulp and print paper imposed by the new Act. Ho will urge that the application of the maximum tariff be postponed from April 1, 1910, to January 1, 1911, and that Canadian wood pulp and print paper be admitted free of duty on condition that no restriction be imposed on their export in the Dominion.