UNITED STATES TARIFF ON PULP AND PAPER. 



The committee of the United States House of Representa- 

 tives which has for months had under investigation the question 

 of the duty on pulpwood and paper, reported to the House on 

 Friday, February 19th. As a result of their investigations they 

 recommend that mechanicaUy ground pulp v\^ood be admitted 

 free of duty "from any country, dependency, province or other 

 subdivision of government which does not forbid or restrict the 

 exportation of or impose any export duty, export license fee 

 or other export charge of any kind whatsoever, either directly 

 or indirectly" upon ground wood or pulpwood; in all other 

 cases they recommend that the duty be one-twelfth of one 

 cent per pound. They further recommend that the duty on 

 chemical wood pulp, unbleached, be one-sixth of one cent per 

 pound drv weight, and on the bleached pulp one-fourth of one 

 cent per pound, dry weight. If any country charge an export 

 duty on pulpwood, the amount of such charge is recommended 

 to be added to the other dvities. Print paper, valued at not 

 more than two and a quarter cents per pound, is recommended 

 to be taxed one-tenth of a cent per pound, and paper worth 

 from two and a quarter to two and a half cents per pound, four 

 tenths of one cent per pound. The present tariff is three-tenths 

 of a cent per pound on paper valued at two cents per pound or 

 less, and four-tenths of a cent per pound on paper worth from 

 two to two and a half cents per pound. "This, in the main," 

 say the committee, "is a reduction in the tariff on ordinary 

 newsprint paper from $6 a ton to $2 a ton." Further investiga- 

 tions by the Bureau of Plant Industry to procure some plant 

 which will yield a fibre suitable to substitute for spruce in the 

 manufacture of paper and by the Forest Service in their 

 endeavor to find woods which can be used in the manufacture 

 of wood are urged.. 



Mr. Norman M. Ross. Chief of the tree-planting division 

 of the Forestrv Branch, represented the forestry interests at the 

 recent meeting of the Western Horticultural Society, giving an 

 address, illustrated with stereopticon views, of the work done 

 at the nurserv station at Indian Head. 



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