(4 Report of Schimmel $ Co. April 1913. 



view, we hope that the American trading and manufacturing circles, which have solved 

 harder problems in the past, will find ways and means to overcome the impending 

 difficulties and to adjust themselves to the given conditions. 



The cardinal points of the proposed Tariff-changes affecting our trade are the 

 following: — 



All essential oils and other odoriferous materials which have been on the free 

 list of the Payne-Aldrich Tariff are scheduled to pay a duty of twenty p. c. ad valorem 

 under the new Underwood Tariff. As a kind of an equivalent for this rather radical 

 imposition, the new Tariff provides that all those essential oils which have paid a 

 duty of twenty-five p. c. ad valorem heretofore, shall also be taxed at the rate of twenty 

 p. c. ad valorem in future. Other special provisions in the Tariff of interest to our 

 trade are the following specific stipulations: Duty on oil of peppermint 25 cents p. lb.; 

 on menthol 50 cents p. lb. and on vanillin 10 cents p. oz. As President Wilson will 

 most probably call an extra session of Congress for April 1, we shall soon be in 

 a position to know definitely with which changes in Tariff matters we will have to 

 count in future. 



Contrary to the general expectation that the Acting Chief of the Bureau of 

 Chemistry, Dr. R. E. Doolittle, would be definitely installed in this important office, 

 or, in the alternative, that the selection of a successor to Dr. Harvey W. Wiley would 

 be left to the new administration, Dr. Charles Alsberg, formerly connected with the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has been appointed 

 Chief of the Bureau of Chemistry on December 17 th , 1912. Whether he will be retained 

 by the new administration, or whether, with a new Secretary of the Department of 

 Agriculture, another change in this office will be made, is mere conjecture at the 

 present moment. One fact, however, has been established in the meantime in reference 

 to Dr. Alsberg, namely that his views, at least in reference to the patent medicine 

 situation in the United States, are sound and decisive, as expressed by him in a 

 recent speech made before a meeting of the National Association of Manufacturers of 

 Medicinal Products of the United States. 



Our business during the year 1912 has been very satisfactory, as already stated 

 in our last Report; a fact which is the more remarkable because other presidential 

 years have almost invariably produced at least a certain stagnation in business 

 matters. If any apprehensions exist in regard to the effect which the change in the 

 Administration from a Republican to a Democratic regime and the Tariff revision may 

 have on the development of trade, we have, at least, not noticed them in our particular 

 branch. The early contracting during the year 1913 has been as satisfactory as ever, 

 and the months so far elapsed in this year show handsome increases over their 

 respective predecessors in 1912. Everything, therefore, points again to a successful 

 and prosperous development of business in the year 1913, as we do not believe that 

 international complications are likely to affect business in the United States. 



The value of the exports of essential oils to the United States from the Consular 

 district of Leipzig, in which our firm plays the leading part, have been as follows: — 



in the year 1912 . . . $ 363046 — 

 „ „ „ 1911 ... $ 289368.- 

 „ „ „ 1910 ... $ 215011.—. 



Our business in the Dominion of Canada is also showing a healthy and steady 

 increase and promises, with the rapid general development in this particular country, 

 to grow in time to very respectable dimensions. 



