If imported for the use of explosive manufacturers in their own factories. Otherwise
Hats:
Beaver, silk and felt Straw
.
10
20
·
"
30
"
22 88
01
34
JJ
#
131
#1
"
"
10
"1
10
"
Hemp, Flax, and Jute Manu-
factures:
Bago and sacks
20 20
20
13
**
29
19
or
25
161
matting
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"
Carpeting, rugs,
+
Damask of linen, stair
linen, diaper, napkins, and other like articles
of linen.
20
231
22222
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10
22
113
10
"
"
429
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TABLE VI.
The following are the Principal Articles of British Production of which practically nothing is sent from this country to Canada, and in which there appears to be some reason to attribute the absence of exports either to the protective tariff or to United States competition :--
ARTICLES.
Customs Duties.
Rates under the General Tarift
Rates under the British Preferential Tərifi.
Difference in favour of
British Goods.
cent.
"
30 per cent.
26
"
+3
Watch cases
30
"
actions and move-
25
ments
10
#1
53 cents.
Electrical apparatus
Household fornitura
- Ad. val.
""
25 per cent.
Agricultural implements - Ad. val. 20 per cent. to 35 per
Bicycles
Clocks and watches
Coal: Bituminous-Per ton of 2,000 lbs.
133 per cent. to 234 per cent.
20 per cent.
16
20
63
11
3.
"
35 cents.
63 per cent. to 113
per cent. 10 per cent
81
11
10
"}
34
"
172 cents.
16 per cont.
8 per cent.
30
20
10
""
"
99
4
$2.50 cents.
$1 663 cents.
83 cents.
25 per cent.
8 per cent.
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Handkerchiefs
Towels
"
59
839
30
"
35
95
30
11
Linen, duck, canvas,
buckabacks, and other
linen manufactures -
25
"
Linen thread
25
•
12
Jute cloth:
161
1999
161
"
8
31
Not otherwise finished
than calendered
blended.
Not calendered or finished
in any way
or
10
"
"
Free.
61
Free.
31
;:
"
Iron and steel:
Pig iron
-
Per ton of 2,000 lbs.
Machinery (except mining) Ad. val.
Wire, single or covered
with cotton, linen, silk,
rubber, &c.
Other manufactures
Jewellery
Leather:
Sole and upper
Boots and shoes -
"
30
Various (principally
30 per cent.).
161 per cent.
20 per cent.
Various (principally
20 per cent.).
10
30
20
10 per cent.
55
"
15
25
10 16號
5 "
39
8}
19
"}
Musical instruments:
30
20
3
"
Organs
"
"
30
20
10 10
""
Metals:
Iron or steel:
Canada plates, galva-
mised sheets and rolled
Pianos
Paper:
Wall or hanging
35
"
19
25
Printing
"1
23 103
11
11
35
19
sheets of iron, conted
with sine or other metal
11
5 per cent.
31 per cent.
11 per cent.
Other manufactures
Various (mostly 23 and
35 per cent.),
Various (mostly
161 and 28 per cent.).|
Tin plates and sheets
Free.
Free.
Mustard, ground
Tin, in blocks, pigs, or bars -
-
Oil, Linseed (raw or boiled) Oilcloth and linoleum
Free.
Free.
Proprietary medicines:
·
Ad. val.
25 per cent.
16 per cent.
8 per cent.
25
161
19
"
81
30
20
10
"
19
"
"
Pickle and maTIONS » Nalt:
35
-
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231
"
111
Ta bulk.
vateens
If for the Gulf or Sea Fisheries
Otherwise:
Silk Manufactures :
Fabrics, velveta, and vel-
Clothing
Soap, common or laundry
Spirito-whiskey
·
Ad. val. Tobacco pipes Umbralisa,” parasols, and
Woolim manufactures:
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Costing 80 esats per lb. and over, imported on the cop. tube or in hank by woollen muhotarers for nie in their fhetorian Other Hinda
Cloths and coatings, and
"
Free.
Free.
In liquid form taining alcohol
Other kinds
Railway materials :
Cars for passengers
Railway bars or rails of
any kind
von-
•
50
"
33 per cent.
161 per cent.
25
16
81
"
"
13
30
20
27
30
20
10
99
13
20
10
"
ท
17
Per 100 lbs.
5 cents.
Free.
The whole duty.
Railway fish and tie
plates
Per ton of 2,000 lbs.
$8
$5 333 cents.
$2 663 cents.
Seeds:
-
Ad. val.
30 per cent.
20 per cent.
10 per cent.
for
35
234
19
"
A
Per lb.
1 cent.
3 cent
11**
19
cant.
Per proof gall.
$1 40 cents.
·
-
85 per cent.
$2 40 cents.
234 per cent.
111 per cent.
Garden, field, and other
seeds
agricul. tural or other pur- poses, when in bulk or in large parcels
- Ad. val.
10 per cent.
63 per cent.
3 conta.
35
19
231
#
111
*
28 32
30
80
น
30
35
Ea a €
131
#
281
114 10
»
#
114
#
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APPENDIX XIV.
Canadian Memorandum respecting the operation of the Preferential Tariff.
(Submitted to the Conference on 22nd July 1902.)
On the 23rd April 1897 the Canadian Government promulgated a Reciprocal Tariff providing for a reduction of duty on British goods of one eighth from the General Tariff rates; such reduction of one-eighth to be in operation from the 23rd April 1897 until the 30th day of June 1898; it was also provided that the reduction would be increased to one fourth on and after the 1st day of July 1898. It was a provision of this Reciprocal Tariff that the reduction in duty would apply to any country the Customs Tariff of which admitted the products of Canada on terms which were, on the whole, as favourable to Canada as the terms of the Reciprocal Tariff were to the countries to which it might apply. The belief and expectation of the Canadian Government were that the reduced rates would only apply to Great Britain, and perhaps one or two of the British Colonies, but it was realised that, possibly, under the operation of the British Treaties with Belgium and Germany, these two foreign countries and others might have to be admitted to the benefits of the preference. The Law Officers of the Crown subsequently gave an opinion that these Treaties applied; as a result of this the benefits of the Reciprocal Tariff were extended to Belgium, Germany, France, Spain, and many other countries.
The Treaties between Great Britain and Belgium and Germany were later denounced, and expired at the end of July 1898.
On the 1st of August of 1898 the Reciprocal Tariff was repealed and super- seded by the British Preferential Tariff, which provided for a reduction of one fourth of the General Tariff rates of duty on all goods, except wines, malt liquors, spirits, spirituous liquors, tobaccos, cigars and cigarettes, imported from the United Kingdom, the British Colony of Bermuda, the British Colonies commonly called the British West Indies, including the following:-The Bahamas, Jamaica, Turks and Caicos Islands, the Leeward Islands (Antigua, St. Christopher-Nevis, Dominica, Montserrat, and the Virgin Islands); the Windward Islands (Grenada, St. Vincent, and St. Lucia); Barbados; Trinidad and Tobago; British Guiana; any other British Colony or Possession the Customs Tariff of which is, on the whole, as favour- able to Canada as the British Preferential Tariff herein referred to is to such colony or possession.
It was provided, however, that manufactured articles to be admitted under such Preferential Tariff should be bond fide manufactures of a country or countries entitled to the benefits of such tariff, and that such benefits would not extend to the importation of articles into the production of which there had not entered a substantial portion of the labour of such countries. By regulation it was determined that 25 per cent. of the completed cost of manufactured articles must represent British labour in order to entitle the articles to come under the Preference.
By Order in Council of 14th July 1898, the following British Colonies were added to the list of countries entitled to the benefits of the Preferential Tariff:-
British India;
Ceylon ;
New South Wales;
Straits Settlements.
On the 1st July 1900 the Preferential reduction was increased from one fourth to one third.
It is respectfully submitted that the Preference has arrested the decline in the volume of British imports into Canada, and given a stimulus to the trade, as a result of which increased sales have been made.
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For some years prior to the adoption of the preference the imports into Canada from Great Britain steadily declined as the following figures show:- IMPORTS FOR HOME CONSUMPTION FROM GREAT BRITAIN.
Datiable.
Total.
Year.
1887
$ 35,766,273
8 44,962,233
1890
33.267,721
43,390,241
1893
31,869,267
43,148,413
1897
20,217,422
29,412,188
The decrease in total British imports between the years 1893 and 1897 was at the rate of 32 per cent.; in dutiable goods alone the decline was 36 per cent.
During that period the total volume of imports entered for consumption declined only 9 per cent.; dutiable alone declined 5
per cent. The total imports from the United States increased by 6 per cent.; dutiable increased by 7 per cent.
From Other Countries the total imports did not vary much for this period but the dutiable alone increased by 64 per cent.
Taking the period from 1890 to 1897 the total British imports into Canada declined at the rate of 32 per cent., while that of the United States, and All Other Countries increased by 18 per cent. The total volume of imports from All Countries for this period did not vary very much, there being a decline of only 1 per cent.
To further demonstrate the decline in Britain's trade the following figures are cited :-
Year.
Proportion of
Datiable Imports from Great Britain to
Total Dutiable.
1893
Per Cent, 45.61
1897
30.53
Proportion Datiable and Free from Great
Britain to Total Dutiable and Free (exclusive of Coin and Bullion).
Per Cent. 36.92
27-58
The preference went into operation on the 23rd April 1897, two months before the close of the fiscal year 1896-97. In view of the' fact that a con- siderable length of time is necessary to disseminate information as to radical changes of such nature, and to secure compliance with the authorised regula- tions thereunder, it is not probable that the preference had much effect upon the trade operations of the fiscal year 1896-97, which closed June 30th, 1897. For comparative purposes, therefore, it seems fair to consider that year as the last prior to the preference.
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It will be seen, then, from the following figures that, since the preference went into operation, there has been a steady and substantial increase of British imports to Canada.
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IMPORTS ENTERed for ConsumPTION FROM GREAT BRITAIN' FOR THE YRÁRS 1897 to 1901.
Year.
Taber..
1007
~ 1898
*Dutiable.
Free
Total
ARH
-20,317,422
9,194,766
29,412,188
29,656,479
9,944,438.
82,500,917.
.1800
27,531,508
..9.538,815
37,000,123
1900.
31,561,756
18,227,974
44,789,730
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1901-
31,701,654
11,316,310
43,078,164
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