Book Description

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ...or more protection than the Payne-Aldrich structure. which it is reputed to restore, will be seen from a perusal of the list of rates published in this correspondence in the issue of July 15. The rates were approved substantially as recommended by the Ways and Means Committcc, --that is with an imposition of a duty of 1 cent per pound on sugar beet, canary. and spinach; 2 cents per pound on celery and parsley; 4 cents per pound on beet, carrot, manglewurzcl, parsnip, radish, turnip, rutabaga and flower seeds; 8 cents per pound on tree seed and kohlrabi; 6 cents on kale; 12 cents per pound on cabbage; 15 cents on pepper; 20 cents on onion; 25 cents on cauliflower; and 20 per cent ad valorcm on all other garden and field seeds. The oil-bearing seeds form a special group pound; flaxsced at 25, cents per bushel; poppy seed at 32 cents per hundred pounds and sunflower seed at 2 cents per pound. The rates adopted are in no case as high as the highest requested by commercial seed growers who made definite recommendations to the Ways and Means Committee, --for example, the suggestions put forward by the seed growers associations of the Pacific Northwcst---but they represent an attempt at compromise as between the present rates and the coveted tariff barrier. Members of the American Seed Trade Association will presumably be satisfied by the retcntion, for the most part, of the specific method of assessing duties in contrast to the ad valorcm basis. So long as seedsmen have to contract for seeds, perhaps two years in advance, and cannot definitely know the price until importations reach American ports, the per pound rate is bound to be the most satisfactory. Not since the days of the Dinglcy law has the seed trade had to wrestle with ad valorem.