AMERICAN TARIFF

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 149, 28 June 1929, Page 9

AMERICAN TARIFF

HIGHER DUTIES ON WOOL

CONFLICT OF INTERESTS

Australian" Press Association.

WASIECNGTON/26tli June. A representative ,of t}ie National Association ■of Woollen"- Manufacturers informed the Senate Sub-committee that the increase of duties on wool waste, namely, noils, rags, and other by-products, from Bto 29 cents per pound, as asked by ' producers, would mean that the compensatory specific duty on fabrics, in which reworked wools are used, should be increased to at least 50 cents per pound, and a proportionately higher ad valorem' rate. The witness also opposed the establishment of scouring and testing plants in New York, Boston,' and Philadelphia. The witness asked'for an increase of duties' on. yarns and woven fabrics generally. Ho advocated that the ["catch all" rate in.the wool schedule | should be fixed at 50 cents per pound, i and 60 per cent, ad valorem, instead of I the proposed straight 50 per cent, ad [valorem. . .

A representative of" the wool scourers asked for a differential duty of 3 cents per pound on scoured wool.'

The carpet. manufacturers', representative opposed this, because it would double the burden of his principals. .The representative of the Rational Live Stock Association asked for the transfer of hides from the free list to the protected list, with a duty of 6 cents on green and 10 cents on dried hides.