Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 139, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 October 1921 — Page 9

DUTIES ON RAW WOOL TO BRING * SENATE FIGHT Carded and Worsted Interests Lock Horns for Conflict. CHANGES RECOMMENDED WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.—A revolutionary change in the method of fixing duties on importations of raw wood will be up for consideration before the Senate Finance Committee Nov. 1, when it resumes hearings on the Fordney Bill, passed by the House. The change, which is recommended by the Tariff Commission, provides that duties on raw wool levied on the material in a cleaned state instead of in the grease. The so-called grease pound has been the basis of all American duties on raw wool since 1867. Manufacturers are dividing on the proposal, according to local interest, and producers are preparing to bring forward arguments. Headquarters are being opened here by various manufacturers. A great amount of data is to be laid before the Senate committee. The struggle is expected to take on all the intensity of that over Schedule K In the Payne-Aldrich tariff. THREE METHODS OE ASSESSING DUTIES. As outlined by the tariff board, wool duties may be assessed in three ways. The first is ad valorem, the second a specific duty on grease wool, and the third a specific duty on washed and scoured wool. Grease wool is that which is filled with .grease and dirt just as it comes from the }back of the animal. Washed wool means wool sheared after washing the live sheep In water. This removes only a part of the dirt and grease. Scoured wool is that which is treated with chemicals to clean It completely. The dirt and grease content of greased wool ranges from 45 to 85 per cent, and that of washed wool from 15 to 20 per cent. The average is about 18 per cent. Upon whether the basis of duty is grease or washed wool depends in great part of the degree of protection afforded to the manuacturer and the producer, according to the tariff commission.

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bjectlon may be Mated, however, to both plans, the commission admit!. PROHIBITION FOR WASHED WOOL. In the Payne-Aldrich tariff the duty was 11 cents a pound on .grease wool and 33 cents a pound on clean wool. This was regarded by certain interests in the industry as almost prohibitive for washed wool except for those varieties that have a very low shrinkage value or which contain a small amount of dirt and grease. Under the old system, American sheep growers, It Is pointed out, protested that instead of affording them protection the grease-pound duty taia tnem open to competition by foreign growers. Their argument was that the high duty on cleaned wool encouraged the Importation of cross-bred staple In which they were specializing and made almost impossible the importation of fine wool with a very kiga dirt content. The Fay ne-Aldrich duties on clean wool were based on the assumption that the average dirt and grease content was 66 per cent. Many wools, however, run up to 75 and 85 per cent. This is especially true of fine merino and part merino needed for clothing. Worsted manufacturers, according to reports of the tariff commission, were able to import lower grade wools to their advantage under the grease-pound duty because o the comparatively low shrinkage content of these wools. Australian wool Importations flourished under the Fayne-Aldrlch tariff. Domestic consumers were dissatisfied and so were woolen manufacturers. CONTROVERSY REVIVED. The controversy of that time between the woolen and worsted manufacturers has been revived and will be displayed In the hearings before the Senate committee. As passed by the House, the new tariff bill provides a duty of 25 cents a pound on grease wool and washed wool alike. The duty on scorued wool Is 28 cents. This schedule, which is virtually prohibitive for grease wool, is Just the reverse of the Payne-Aldrich and other tariff bills, which were based on the grease pound instead of on the clean wool. In the emergency tariff bill the duties are 15 cents on washed wool and 45 cents on scoured. This schedule was designed primarily to afford complete protection for the producer. A fine wool with a very high shrinkage 'rom dirt and grease can be imported nore profitably under a grease-pound iuty than under the washed basis. But jnder the Payne-Aldrich tariff It was pos-

sible for manufacturers to Import many middling grades of wool despite the almost prohibitive duty on washed wool. The grease pound duty, however, was said to work against the importation of very fine grades needed for clothing. FINDINGS OF COMMISSION. An analysis of the situation, prepared by the Tariff Commission, follows: “The chief defect to the remedy If a duty should be Imposed Is the inequality arising from the fact of the varying degrees of shrinkage of wool. “One method proposed for doing away with the inequality is to impose an ad valorem duty. It is held by some persons that the desirability of the different kinds of wool, from the standpoint of shrinkage and other factors, is reflected In the price, and that such a duty would therefore remove the discrimination. “The difficulty of administering an ad valorem duty is a very serious objection. Wool Is not a standardized commodity. Virtually every lot of wool has peculiar characteristics and the Judgment of experts in the value of each bale would vary appreciably. Furthermore, the methods of marketing wool in different parts of the world are very unlike, so that a value established in one market Is hardly comparable with that established In other markets for a supposedly similar grade of wool. SPECIFIC AND AD VALOREM DUTIES. “Even if ic were not for this difficulty of administration, however, there is another objection which might be final. When prices increase an ad valorem keeps pace with them, while a specific duty becomes, In effect, a lower duty. When prices fall the converse of the proposition holds good Domestic producers usually need protection more ur-

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gently when prices are falling, and these specific duties are better for them at such a time. “A specific grease-pound rate graduated according to estimated shrinkage has been proposed It would be necessary, If such a system were adopted, to divide wool Into classes according to its shrink and and to levy a small duty on heavy shrinking wool and a progressively greater duty on classes of wool which have a lighter shrinkage. To adjust the duty so that It would vary closely with the scoured content of the wool would require a large number of shrinkage classes, and with more finely specified classes a greater number of disputes over shrinkage are to be expected.”—Copyright, 1921, by Public Ledger Company.

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