A Tariff War.
By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright
London, Feb. 18,
Owing to.beet-root sugar enjoying a reduction or return of Excise duty on leaving Russia, the American Government has imposed a countervailing duty. Russia has retaliated by adding 30 per cent, duty on American hardware, sheet iron, dynamos, and machinery. Mr Gage, American Secretary of the Treasury, has imposed a countervailing duty on Belgian sugar equal to, the prevailing bounty paid by Belgium. There has been a great decrease of the German Home trade, especially of iron manufactures. Fifty per cent, of the Berlin building trades ftj>o unemployed.
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 43, 20 February 1901, Page 3
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97A Tariff War. Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 43, 20 February 1901, Page 3
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