GERMANY AND UNITED STATES.
! THE COMMERCIAL TREATY. I By Telegraph.— Association—Copyright* : i (Received Juno 3, ,9.50 p.m.) New York, June 3. The tariff arrangements under the commercial treaty;between Germany and the United States have been promulgated at Washington. The concessions give the United States reductions totalling -£1,250,000, while Germany gets reductions amounting to only £400,000. • ; .' _ The treaty provides for a reduction of 20 per. cent, in the duty on wine in favour of German champagne. In consequence of this concession to Germany, the French Government has retaliated by increasing the duties on American cotton seed oil and Puerto Rico coffee. . i
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13455, 4 June 1907, Page 5
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