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F. F. Stetson, fruit canner and &lt;an manufacturer, Los Angeles,
(al.. also said:

In the can factory we are interested in the sale of cans on the west coast of
Mexico, but we find in that district the tariff is very much against us. We
can not get cans down into Mexico because of the high tariff. * * * I can
not say what it is, because we make the price here, but our customers say they
can not do business on the west coast of Mexico on account of the high tariff.
Now, we sell cans to those people in San Diego who have fisheries on the west
coast, and they will bring the fish up there to can, so we get some business from
Mexico in that way; but the establishment of canneries on the west coast of
Mexico is an impossibility because of this high duty on the tin cars. * * ¢
They want to can fish on the west coast of Mexico and there are no can factories,
20 they have to import their tin cans, and that has resulted in the abandonment
of several enterprises of that sort. Men would go down there and try to establish
 a fish cannery and could not do it because they could not get any tin cans
at a reasonable price. This is all on account of the tariff.
The same conditions are found to exist in the salmon canning
industry. Miller Freeman, publisher of the Pacific Fisherman,
Seattle, Wash., in behalf of the salmon canners, said:
I wish to say that covering a period of several years we have carried on an
investigation on behalf of salmon canners, which included inquiries with respect
to the status of the treatment of the product in all the various countries of the
world, and it was shown in effect that practically, with the exception of Great
Britain, canned salmon is a product as to which the terms of entry are 80 unfavorable
 that in many cases the rate is practically prohibitive and cuts us out
of the market,
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For instance, in Brazil the tariff rate is 80 cents a pound.
The first work undertaken by our investigation was the gathering of the
facts as to the treatment of the product in foreign countries, which disclosed,
as I say, that in most of these countries the rate was prohibitive and in other
countries it was too high really to make it practicable to do business on any
scale of importance. In Germany, for instance, the tariff is 7 cents a pound ;
in Austria it is 8 cents; in the United Kingdom there is no duty, and, of course,
that is where the bulk of the product goes. Chile, a South American country
which has a nominal duty, is a very large user of salmon. They have a
duty of only 1% cents. * * * Take it into France, the duty on canned
salmon into France is in favor of British Columbia or Canada as against this
country. Whenever we do any business with France we have to go to British
Columbia and purchase it there and ship it, because the tariff on our canned
salmon is large as against British Columbia which goes in free, and we have
a high duty to pay, and it is all due to the fact that those duties were put into
affect years ago when canned salmon was not offered in those markets.

R. E. Small, of the Kelley-Clarke Co., Seattle, Wash., salmon
brokers, agreed with Mr. Freeman’s statement regarding the prohibitive
 duties in foreign countries. As to the effect of the removal of
the Philippine tariff on salmon, T. J. Gorman, of Gorman &amp; Co.,
Seattle, Wash., salmon packers and brokers. said:

From infinitesimal shipments of 10,000 or 12,000 cases a year into the Philipnines.
 it increased in 1912 to something like 160,000 ‘cases, and has held, con-:inuously
 since, between 100,000 and 160,000 cases per annum, It makes by far
‘he cheapest food they get there, and it is all due to the fact that our Government
 removed the tariff on canned salmon, provided it #s shipped on a continuous
ressel to the Philippines.

As to the attitude of the Canadian Government towards the halibut
industry, William Calvert, of the San Juan Fishing &amp; Packing Co.,
fish packers, Seattle, Wash.. said *

Commercially we are at a disadvantage on account of the difference between
the attitudes of the Canadian Government and our Government as regards the
halibut industry and, in fact, the whole fish industry.
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