UNITED STATES TARIFF

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 10 May 1921, Page 5

UNITED STATES TARIFF

HEAVY DUTY ON WOOL

BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYEIGHT Received May 10, 9.10 a.m.) WASHINGTON, May 9.

The Republican records for high protective tariffs will be broken by the new Permanent Tariff Bill now in committee. The schedules generally average aibove the Payne-Aldrich Bill of 1909. According to the present draft wool will be taxed as follows: Greasy, 11 cents per lb, washed 22 cents per lib, scoured 33 cents per lfe. Sugar 'will ibe taxed 2 cents per lb. Tariffs on agricultural products, however, will ibe slightly lower than the emergency tariff.