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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXII, Issue 9565, 30 December 1909, Page 4

The United States Government has in its pay a number of "drapery experts," and meu of that class, attached to the Custom House, also a few agents who live iv Germany, and whose duty is to watch prices ruling there at the time goods are exported to America. This effectually checks falsification of invoices, when takeu iv conjunction with close scrutiny of invoices on arrival. The German manufacturers, however, resent this, aud by way of placating them the rules as to examination at Americau ports have been relaxed. What most excited the minds of German merchants was the iguoriugof "consular" invoices. A sort of tariff compromise is now in force with Germany, but it works unsatisfactorily; aud, although the matter of tariff relations has not yet become a burning question iv presidential elections, it must iigure iv that category at the next election. In the meautime the British Budget of 1910 will have given a lead to economic thought aud the suggestion of reciprocity will perhaps have won its way into tho miuds of all nations, without the necessity for tariff wars, which would be as disturbing in their own way as the campaigns of history.