GERMANY The following tables show: (1) Average equivalent ad valorem rates in 1926 and 1927. (2) Equivalent ad valorem rates on the principal subject divisions of the German imports. Germany Equivalent ad valorem rate of customs duties on imports for consumption, free and dutiable, 1926 and 1927 1 1926 1927 Free and dutiable goods. On dutiable goods.. 1 Germany, Statistisches Jahrbuch für das deutsche Reich, 1928, p. 563. Calculated ad valorem rates of duty on dutiable articles, Germany, 1926 and 1927 1 FRANCE The following table shows the equivalent ad valorem rate of duty charged by France on a number of imports from the United States in 1927 and 1928. Some of the rates charged by France on United States products are higher than on like products of other countries. ous advances in tariff rates were made by France in 1928. Numer France-Equivalent ad valorem rates on certain dutiable articles imported from the United States 1 Commodity Animals and animal products: Meats, salted, pork, and beef products.. Fish, dried, salted, or canned. Animal fat, other than fish margarine, and similar substances. Sugars, crude or refined. Vegetable products: Groats, grit (coarse flour), pearled or cleaned grain, semolina, and Italian pastes. Preparations of sugar (sirups, bonbons, fruits, sweet biscuits, candy, etc.). Rice 1927 Per cent 7.6 14.9 7.9 41.2 22.8 24.1 19.1 9.8 10.9 6.2 9.0 2.1 31.7 22.2 10.3 7.9 5.4 21.6 15.0 16.2 32.4 25.9 19.8 20. 1 13.8 8.2 16.2 14.2 9.1 29.3 8.6 45.2 23.4 17.9 8.7 10.4 8.6 The following tables show the average equivalent ad valorem rates of duty collected by Italy on all imported goods in 1926 and 1927 and upon the principal classes of commodities separately recorded in the import statistics. The Italian statistics are not arranged in such a way that the dutiable imports can well be separated from the free and dutiable combined. Italy-Imports for consumption (commercio speciale) and duties collected, 1925 and 1926 1 1 Italy, Movimento Commerciale del Regno d'Italia, Rome, 1929, p. 8 (excluding gold and silver ore and money). Average calculated ad valorem rates collected on free and dutiable imports into Italy, 1926 1 CANADA The table below gives for the fiscal year 1929 imports of certain dutiable articles into Canada from the United States, together with the calculated equivalent ad valorem rates on such dutiable imports. Imports of dutiable commodities into Canada for consumption from the United States, and equivalent ad valorem rates of duty, year ended March 31, 19291 1 Canada, Department of Trade and Commerce. Trade of Canada, fiscal year ended Mar. 31, 1929. APPENDIX A SOME GERMAN AND UNITED STATES WAGES The following table gives average wage rates in Germany and the United States for a number of industries. 2 Comparative wages for skilled worker in United States' and Germany, November, 1928 1 National Industrial Conference Board, the Service Letter on Industrial Relations, Jan. 25, 1929, p. 2. The wages are for male, skilled and semiskilled. ? Germany, national statistical office, Wirtschaft und Statistik, Dec. 2, 1928, p. 952. They are the wages specified in the labor agreements. 3 German wages in the heavy iron and steel industry were increased about 4 per cent in December, 1928. (Ministry of Labour Gazette, January, 1929, p. 10.) • Males. • Females. • Simple average. |