January 25, 1921 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



47 



Manufacturers 



SOUTHERN HARDWOODS 



Ash 



Poplar 



Red Gum 



Mixed Oak 

 Elm 



Sap Gum 



Soft Maple 



Tupelo 



CUMMER LUMBER COMPANY 



SALES OFFICE: 



280 MADISON AVENUE 



NEW YORK, N. Y. 



MAIN OFFICE 



JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA 



Duty on Maple Lumber Shipped from Canada to the United States 



Members will recall that In January of this year we issued a bulletin 

 covering a ruling by the United States Treasury Department imposing a 

 duty of 10 per cent ad valorem on maple lumber imported to the United 

 States from Canada. Paragraph 169 of the Tariff Act of 1913 imposes a 

 10 per cent duty on "cabinet -wood," and the Treasury Department has 

 classified maple as a cabinet wood, except when manufactured into floor- 

 ing or when invoiced at SIC per thousand. The Treasury Department 

 ruled that the scarcity of other cabinet woods justifies the classification 

 of maple as a "cabinet wood." 



Since that time some protests have been filed and the board of general 

 appraisers by ruling No. 43873 on protest No. 933672, etc., of W. H. Allison 

 & Company and other.s has ruled that on the record presented maple 

 lumber was held free of duty. 



The Treasury Department will probably appeal from this ruling, which 

 puts maple in the free class, and in the meantime the department will 

 levy a duty on maple shipments coming into the United States from 

 Canada, taking the position that If maple is finally declared free claims 

 must be filed by protestants for duties to be refunded. 



We are also informed that the Treasury Department has classified beech 

 as a "cabinet wood," and will levy a duty on shipments of beech from 

 Canada to the United States on the same basis as duties are collected on 

 maple. 



The Treasury Department has sixty days from Nov. 10 within which to 

 appeal from the board of appraisers' ruling. 

 Yours very truly, 



(Signed) W. W. Schupner. 

 Department Manager, National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' .Association. 



Pacific Coast Loggers Cut Wages 

 By a vote of 15 to 9, the board of directors of the Loyal Legion of 

 Loggers and Lumbermen for Oregon, at a meeting in Portland, Ore., on 

 Dec. 20, voted to cut the minimum wage of the workmen of the legion 80 

 ■cents a day. The new minimum wage will be $3.60 a day. 



November Exports Are Good 



The statement of exports of lumber and logs from Baltimore last Novem- 

 ber, which was given out at the Custom House here last week, shows up 

 quite well, especially in comparison with the same month for 1919, with 

 a total declared value of not less than $321,667, against only $92,695 for 

 November, 1919. With the exception of oak and hardwood boards, and 

 "other manufactures of woods," the items on the list are generally small, 

 though a considerable diversity of shipments is shown. It Is again to be 

 noted that the declared value of the forwardings last November Is far 

 in excess of November, 1919, the 551,000 feet of oak boards shipped last 

 November, for instance, being worth $73,460, while the 624,000 feet 

 exported in November, 1919, are entered at not more than $38,443. The 

 654,000 feet of hardwood boards exported last November figure in the 

 exhibit with at $144,437, while the 350,000 feet shipped In the same montn 

 of- 1919 are valued at only $29,731. 



Carriers Will Equalize Rates 



C. A. New, assistant secretary of the Southern Hardwood Traffic Asso- 

 ciation, who has returned from Chicago where he attended a conference 

 January 15, between W. T. Hardie, director of traffic of the Interstate 

 Commerce Commission, and representatives of the carriers and shippers, 

 reports that the carriers have agreed to take the necessary steps to 

 restore the 'equalization, in the matter of combination rates, that existed 

 between the Thebes gateway and the Bast St. Louis gateway. It would 

 appear that, in the general advance in rates August 26, 1920, combina- 

 tions via the Thebes gateway were made higher than those through the 

 East St. Louis gateway, with the result that shippers of hardwood lumber 

 and forest products have been deprived of the use of the former to a large 

 degree. The conference was called for the specific purpose of dealing 

 with this situation. 



Mr. New also stated, on his return, that the carriers were showing a 

 disposition to co-operate with the association in its efforts to secure publi- 

 cation of through rates before present combination rates are withdrawn. 

 The Interstate Commerce Commission has given the carriers permission to 

 withdraw present combinations June 1, 1921. and has made it Incumbent 

 upon shippers to apply to the publishing agents of the carriers for publica- 

 tion of through rates before that time wherever combinations are now 

 being used in making rates. The association does not believe that it will 

 be physically possible for the carriers to publish through rates, in lieu 

 of present combinations, in all Instances before that date and it is very 

 much gratified over the evident disposition of the carriers to continue the 

 combination rates in effect until such times as the through rates may be 

 published. 



