Chapter 3. To promote reciprocal trade relations with the Dominion of Canada, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 3.— An Act To promote reciprocal trade relations with the Dominion of Canada, and for other purposes. July 26, 1911.[[H. R. 4412](/us/bill/62/hr/4412).][[Public, No. 3](/us/pl/62/3).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Canadian reciprocity.Duties on imports from Canada. That there shall be levied, collected, and paid upon the articles hereinafter enumerated, the growth, product or manufacture of the Dominion of Canada, when imported therefrom into the United States or any of its possessions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), in lieu of the duties now levied, collected, and paid, the following duties, namely:
Meats, etc.Fresh meats: Beef, veal, mutton, lamb, pork, and all other fresh or refrigerated meats excepting game, one and one-fourth cents per pound. Bacon and hams, not in tins or jars, one and one-fourth cents per pound. Meats of all kinds, dried, smoked, salted, in brine, or prepared or preserved in any manner, not otherwise herein provided for, one and one-fourth cents per pound. Canned meats and canned poultry, twenty per centum ad valorem. Extract of meat, fluid or not, twenty per centum ad valorem.
Lard and compounds thereof, cottolene and cotton stearine, and animal stearine, one and one-fourth cents per pound. Tallow, forty cents per one hundred pounds. Egg yolk, egg albumen, and blood albumen, seven and one-half per centum ad valorem. Fish packed in oil.Fish (except shellfish) by whatever name known, packed in oil, in tin boxes or cans, including the weight of the package:
(a)when weighing over twenty ounces and not over thirty-six ounces each, five cents per package;
(b)when weighing over twelve ounces and not over twenty ounces each, four cents per package;
(c)when weighing twelve ounces each or less, two cents per package;
(d)when weighing thirty-six ounces each or more, or when packed in oil, in bottles, jars, or kegs, thirty per centum ad valorem. Vegetables, canned, etc.Tomatoes and other vegetables, including corn, in cans or other air-tight packages, and including the weight of the package, one and one-fourth cents per pound. Flour, meal, etc.Wheat flour and semolina, and rye flour, fifty cents per barrel of one hundred and ninety-six pounds. Oatmeal and rolled oats, including the weight of paper covering, fifty cents per one hundred pounds. Corn meal, twelve and one-half cents per one hundred pounds. Barley malt, forty-five cents per one hundred pounds. Barley, pot, pearled, or patent, one-half cent per pound. Buckwheat flour or meal, one-half cent per pound. Split peas, dried, seven and one-half cents per bushel of sixty pounds. Prepared cereal foods, not otherwise provided for herein, seventeen and one-half per centum ad valorem. Bran, middlings, and other officials of grain used for animal food, twelve and one-half cents per one hundred pounds. Macaroni and vermicelli, one cent per pound. Biscuits, cakes, etc., sweetened.Biscuits, wafers, and cakes, when sweetened with sugar, honey, molasses, or other material, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. Biscuits, wafers, cakes, and other baked articles, composed in whole or in part of eggs or any kind of flour or meal, when combined with chocolate, nuts, fruits, or confectionery; also candied peel, candied popcorn, candied nuts, candied fruits, sugar candy, and confectionery of all kinds, thirty-two and one-half per centum ad valorem. Maple sugar, etc.Maple sugar and maple sirup, one cent per pound. 5 Pickles, included pickled nuts, sauces of all kinds, and fish pastePickles, etc. or sauce, thirty-two and one-half per centum ad valorem. Cherry juice and prune juice, or prune wine, and other fruit juicesFruit juices, etc. and fruit sirup, nonalcoholic, seventeen and one-half per centum ad valorem. Mineral waters and imitations of natural mineral waters, in bottlesMineral waters. or jugs, seventeen and one-half per centum ad valorem. Essential oils, seven and one-half per centum ad valorem.Essential oils. Grapevines; gooseberry, raspberry, and current bushes, seventeenGrapevines, etc. and one-half per centum ad valorem. Farm wagons and finished parts thereof, twenty-two and one-halfFarm wagons. per centum ad valorem. Plows, tooth and disk harrows, harvesters, reapers, agriculturalAgricultural implements. drills and planters, mowers, horserakes, cultivators; threshing machines, including windstackers, baggers, weighers, and self-feeders therefor and finished parts thereof imported for repair of the foregoing, fifteen per centum ad valorem. Portable engines with boilers, in combination, horsepower andFarm engines, etc. traction engines for farm purposes; hay loaders, potato diggers, fodder or feed cutters, grain crushers, fanning mills, hay tedders, farm or field rollers, manure spreaders, weeders, and windmills, and finished parts thereof imported for repair of the foregoing, except shafting, twenty per centum ad valorem. Grindstones of sandstone, not mounted, finished or not, five centsGrindstones. per one hundred pounds. Freestone, granite, sandstone, limestone, and all other monumentalBuilding stone, etc. or building stone, except marble, breccia, and onyx, unmanufactured or not dressed, hewn, or polished, twelve and one-half per centum ad valorem. Roofing slates, fifty-five cents per one hundred square feet. Vitrified paving blocks, not ornamented or decorated in any manner, and paving blocks of stone, seventeen and one-half per centum ad valorem. Oxide of iron, as a color, twenty-two and one-half per centum adOxide of iron. valorem. Asbestos, further manufactured than ground; manufactures ofAsbestos. asbestos or articles of which asbestos is the component material of chief value, including woven fabrics, wholly or in chief value of asbestos, twenty-two and one-half per centum ad valorem. Printing ink, seventeen and one-half per centum ad valorem.Printing ink. Cutlery, plated or not-pocketknives, penknives, scissors andCutlery. shears, knives and forks for household purposes, and table steels, twenty-seven and one-half per centum ad valorem. Bells and gongs, brass corners and rules for printers, twenty-sevenBells, etc. and one-half per centum ad valorem. Basins, urinals, and other plumbing fixtures for bathrooms andPlumbing fixtures. lavatories; bathtubs, sinks, and laundry tubs of earthenware, stone, cement, or clay, or of other material, thirty-two and one-half per centum ad valorem. Brass band instruments, twenty-two and one-half per centum adBand instruments. valorem. Clocks, watches, time recorders, clock and watch keys, clock cases,Clocks, watches, etc. and clock movements, twenty-seven and one-half per centum ad valorem. Printers’ wooden cases and cabinets for holding type, twenty-sevenType cases. and one-half per centum ad valorem. Wood flour, twenty-two and one-half per centum ad valorem.Wood flour. Canoes and small boats of wood, not power boats, twenty-two andCanoes, etc. one-half per centum ad valorem. 6 Feathers.Feathers, crude, not dressed, colored, or otherwise manufactured, twelve and one-half per centum ad valorem. Surgical dressings, etc.Antiseptic surgical dressings, such as absorbent cotton, cotton wool, lint, lamb’s wool, tow, jute, gauzes, and oakum, prepared for use as surgical dressings, plain or medicated; surgical trusses, pessaries, and suspensory bandages of all kinds, seventeen and one-half per centum ad valorem. Plate glass.Plate glass, not beveled, in sheets or panes exceeding seven square feet each and not exceeding twenty-five square feet each, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. Motor vehicles.Motor vehicles, other than for railways and tramways, and automobiles and parts thereof, not including rubber tires, thirty per centum ad valorem. Wood pulp digesters.Iron or steel digesters for the manufacture of wood pulp, twenty-seven and one-half per centum ad valorem. Leather goods.Musical instrument cases, fancy cases or boxes, portfolios, satchels, reticules, card cases, purses, pocketbooks, fly books for artificial flies, all the foregoing composed wholly or in chief value of leather, thirty per centum ad valorem. Aluminum.Aluminum in crude form, five cents per pound. Aluminum in plates, sheets, bars, and rods, eight cents per pound. Laths.Laths, ten cents per one thousand pieces. Shingles.Shingles, thirty cents per thousand. Lumber.Sawed boards, planks, deals, and other lumber, planed or finished on one side, fifty cents per thousand feet, board measure; planed or finished on one side and tongued and grooved, or planed or finished on two sides, seventy-five cents per thousand feet, board measure; planed or finished on three sides, or planed and finished on two sides and tongued and grooved, one dollar and twelve and one-half cents per thousand feet, board measure; planed and finished on four sides, one dollar and fifty cents per thousand feet, board measure; and in estimating board measure under this schedule no deduction shall be made on board measure on account of planing, tonguing, and grooving. Iron ore, etc.Iron ore, including manganiferous iron ore, and the dross or *Proviso*.No allowance for moisture.residuum from burnt pyrites, ten cents per ton: *Provided,* That in levying and collecting the duty on iron ore no deduction shall be made from the weight of the ore on account of moisture which may be chemically or physically combined therewith. Coal slack or culm.Coal slack or culm of all kinds, such as will pass through a half-inch screen, fifteen cents per ton. *Proviso*.Rates in effect on evidence of specified duties by Canada on United States articles.*Provided,* That the duties above enumerated shall take effect whenever the President of the United States shall have satisfactory evidence and shall make proclamation that on the articles hereinafter enumerated, the growth, product, or manufacture of the United States, or any of its possessions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), when imported therefrom into Canadian duties.the Dominion of Canada, duties not in excess of the following are imposed, namely: Meats, etc.Fresh meats: Beef, veal, mutton, lamb, pork, and all other fresh or refrigerated meats excepting game, one and one-fourth cents per pound. Bacon and hams, not in tins or jars, one and one-fourth cents per pound. Meats of all kinds, dried, smoked, salted, in brine, or prepared or preserved in any manner, not otherwise herein provided tor, one and one-fourth cents per pound. Canned meats and canned poultry, twenty per centum ad valorem. Extract of meat, fluid or not, twenty per centum ad valorem. Lard, and compounds thereof, cottolene and cotton stearin, and animal stearin, one and one-fourth cents per pound. 7 Tallow, forty cents per one hundred pounds. Egg yolk, egg albumen, and blood albumen, seven and one-half per centum ad valorem. Fish (except shellfish), by whatever name known, packed in oil, inFish packed in oil. tin boxes or cans, including the weight of the package:
(a)when weighing over twenty ounces and not over thirty-six ounces each, five cents per package;
(b)when weighing over twelve ounces and not over twenty ounces each, four cents per package;
(c)when weighing twelve ounces each or less, two cents per package;
(d)when weighing thirty-six ounces each or more, or when packed in oil, in bottles, jars, or kegs, thirty per centum ad valorem. Tomatoes and other vegetables, including corn, in cans or otherVegetables, canned, etc. air-tight packages, and including the weight of the package, one and one-fourth cents per pound. Wheat flour and semolina; and rye flour, fifty cents per barrel ofFlour, meal, etc. one hundred and ninety-six pounds. Oatmeal and rolled oats, including the weight of paper covering, fifty cents per one hundred pounds. Corn meal, twelve and one-half cents per one hundred pounds. Barley malt, forty-five cents per one hundred pounds. Barley, pot, pearled, or patent, one-half cent per pound. Buckwheat flour or meal, one-half cent per pound. Split peas, dried, seven and one-half cents per bushel of sixty pounds. Prepared cereal foods, not otherwise provided for herein, seventeen and one-half per centum ad valorem. Bran, middlings, and other offals of grain used for animal food twelve and one-half cents per one hundred pounds. Macaroni and vermicelli, one cent per pound. Biscuits, wafers, and cakes, when sweetened with sugar, honey,Biscuit, cakes, etc., sweetened. molasses, or other material, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. Biscuits, wafers, cakes, and other baked articles, composed in whole or in part of eggs or any kind of flour or meal, when combined with chocolate, nuts, fruits, or confectionery; also candied peel, candied popcorn, candied nuts, candied fruits, sugar candy, and confectionery of all kinds, thirty-two and one-half per centum ad valorem. Maple sugar and maple sirup, one cent per pound.Maple sugar, etc. Pickles, including pickled nuts, sauces of all kinds, and fish paste orPickles, etc. sauce, thirty-two and one-half per centum ad valorem. Cherry juice and prune juice, or prune wine, and other fruit juices,Fruit juices, etc. and fruit sirup, nonalcoholic, seventeen and one-half per centum ad valorem. Mineral waters and imitations of natural mineral waters, in bottlesMineral waters. or jugs, seventeen and one-half per centum ad valorem. Essential oils, seven and one-half per centum ad valorem.Essential oils. Grapevines; gooseberry, raspberry, and currant bushes, seventeenGrapevines, etc. and one-half per centum ad valorem. Farm wagons, and finished parts thereof, twenty-two and one-halfFarm wagons. per centum ad valorem. Plows, tooth and disk harrows, harvesters, reapers, agriculturalAgricultural implements. drills and planters, mowers, horserakes, cultivators; thrashing machines, including windstackers, baggers, weighers, and self-feeders therefor, and finished parts thereof imported for repair of the foregoing, fifteen per centum ad valorem. Portable engines with boilers, in combination, horsepower andFarm engines, etc. traction engines, for farm purposes; hay loaders, potato diggers, fodder or feed cutters, grain crushers, fanning mills, hay tedders, farm or field rollers, manure spreadens, weeders, and windmills, and finished parts thereof imported for repair of the foregoing, except shafting, twenty per centum ad valorem. 8 Grindstones.Grindstones of sandstone, not mounted, finished or not, five cents per one hundred pounds. Building stone, etc.Freestone, granite, sandstone, limestone, and all other monumental or building stone, except marble, breccia, and onyx, unmanufactured or not dressed, hewn or polished, twelve and one-half per centum ad valorem. Roofing slates, fifty-five cents per one hundred square feet. Vitrified paving blocks, not ornamented or decorated in any manner, and paving blocks of stone, seventeen and one-half per centum ad valorem. Oxide of iron.Oxide of iron, as a color, twenty-two and one-half per centum ad valorem. Asbestos.Asbestos further manufactured than ground: Manufactures of asbestos, or articles of which asbestos is the component material of chief value, including woven fabrics wholly or in chief value of asbestos, twenty-two and one-half per centum ad valorem. Printing ink.Printing ink, seventeen and one-half per centum ad valorem. Cutlery.Cutlery, plated or not: Pocketknives, penknives, scissors and shears, knives and forks for household purposes, and table steels, twenty-seven and one-half per centum ad valorem. Bells, etc.Bells and gongs, brass comers and rules for printers, twenty-seven and one-half per centum ad valorem. Plumbing fixtures.Basins, urinals, and other plumbing fixtures for bathrooms and lavatories; bathtubs, sinks, and laundry tubs, of earthenware, stone, cement, or clay, or of other material, thirty-two and one-half per centum ad valorem. Band instruments.Brass band instruments, twenty-two and one-half per centum ad valorem. Clocks, watches, etc.Clocks, watches, time recorders, clock and watch keys, clock cases, and clock movements, twenty-seven and one-half per centum ad valorem. Type cases.Printers’ wooden cases and cabinets for holding type, twenty-seven and one-half per centum ad valorem. Wood flour.Wood flour, twenty-two and one-half per centum ad valorem. Canoes, etc.Canoes and small boats of wood, not power boats, twenty-two and one-half per centum ad valorem. Feathers.Feathers, crude, not dressed, colored or otherwise manufactured, twelve and one-half per centum ad valorem. Surgical dressings, etc.Antiseptic surgical dressings, such as absorbent cotton, cotton wool, lint, lamb’s wool, tow, jute, gauzes, and oakum, prepared for use as surgical dressings, plain or medicated ; surgical trusses, pessaries, and suspensory bandages of all kinds, seventeen and one-half per centum ad valorem. Plate glass.Plate glass, not beveled, in sheets or panes exceeding seven square feet each, and not exceeding twenty-five square feet each, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. Motor vehicles.Motor vehicles, other than for railways and tramways, and automobiles, and parts thereof, not including rubber tires, thirty per centum ad valorem. Wood pulp digesters.Iron or steel digesters for the manufacture of wood pulp, twenty-seven and one-half per centum ad valorem. Leather goods.Musical instrument cases, fancy cases or boxes, portfolios, satchels, reticules, card cases, purses, pocketbooks, fly books for artificial flies; all the foregoing composed wholly or in chief value of leather, thirty per centum ad valorem. Cement.Cement, Portland, and hydraulic or water lime in barrels, bags, or casks, the weight of the package to be included in the weight for duty, eleven cents per one hundred pounds. Fruit trees.Trees: Apple, cherry, peach, pear, plum, and quince, of all kinds, and small peach trees known as June buds, two and one-half cents each. 9 Condensed milk, the weight of the package to be included in theCondensed milk. weight for duty, two cents per pound. Biscuits without added sweetening, twenty per centum ad valorem.Biscuits, not sweetened.Canned, etc., fruits. Fruits in air-tight cans or other air-tight packages, the weight of the cans or other packages to be included in the weight for duty, two cents per pound. Peanuts, shelled, one cent per pound.Peanuts. Peanuts, unshelled, one-half cent per pound. Coal, bituminous, round and run of mine, including bituminousBituminous coal. coal such as will not pass through a three-quarter inch screen, forty- five cents per ton. That the articles mentioned in the following paragraphs, the growth,Articles from Canada admitted free. product, or manufacture of the Dominion of Canada, when imported therefrom into the United States or any of its possessions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), shall be exempt from duty, namely: Live animals: Cattle, horses and mules, swine, sheep, lambs, andAnimals. all other live animals. Poultry, dead or alive.Poultry. Wheat, rye, oats, barlev, and buckwheat, dried peas and beans,Cereals. edible. Corn, sweet corn, or maize. Hay, straw, and cowpeas.Hay, etc. Fresh vegetables: Potatoes, sweet potatoes, yams, turnips, onions,Vegetables. cabbages, and all other vegetables in their natural state. Fresh fruits: Apples, pears, peaches, grapes, berries, and all otherFruit, fresh.Exception. edible fruits in their natural state, except lemons, oranges, limes, grapefruit, shaddocks, pomelos, and pineapples. Dried fruits: Apples, peaches, pears, and apricots, dried, desiccated,Fruit, dried, etc. or evaporated. Dairy products: Butter, cheese, and fresh milk and cream: *Provided,*Dairy products.Proviso.Return of cans. That cans actually used in the transportation of milk or cream may be passed back and forth between the two countries free of duty, under such regulations as the respective Governments may prescribe. Eggs of barnyard fowl, in the shell.Eggs. Honey.Honey. Cottonseed oil.Cottonseed oil. Seeds: Flaxseed or linseed, cotton seed, and other oil seeds; grassSeeds. seed, including timothy and clover seed; garden, field, and other seed not herein otherwise provided for, when in packages weighing over one pound each (not including flower seeds). Fish of all kinds, fresh, frozen, packed in ice, salted, or preservedFish, fresh, etc. in any form, except sardines and other fish preserved in oil; and shellfish of all kinds, including oysters, lobsters, and clams in any state, fresh or packed, and coverings of the foregoing. Seal, herring, whale, and other fish oil, including sod oil: *Provided,*Fish oil.Proviso.Determination of nationality of fisheries. That fish oil, whale oil, seal oil, and fish of all kinds, being the product of fisheries carried on by the fishermen of the United States, shall be admitted into Canada as the product of the United States, and, similarly, that fish oil, whale oil, seal oil, and fish of all kinds, being the product of fisheries carried on by the fishermen of Canada, shall be admitted into the United States" as the product of Canada. Salt.Salt. Mineral water’s, natural, not in bottles or jugs.Mineral waters. Timber, hewn, sided or squared otherwise than by sawing, andTimber, boards, etc. round timber used for spare or in building wharves. Sawed boards, planks, deals, and other lumber, not further manufactured than sawed. Paving posts, railroad ties, and telephone, trolley, electric-light, and telegraph poles of cedar or other woods. 10 Wooden staves of all kinds, not further manufactured than listed or jointed, and stave bolts. Pickets and palings. Gypsum, mica, etc.Plaster rock, or gypsum, crude, not ground. Mica, unmanufactured or rough trimmed only, and mica, ground or bolted. Feldspar, crude, powdered or ground. Asbestos, not further manufactured than ground. Fluorspar, crude, not ground. Glycerine.Glycerine, crude, not purified. Talc.Talc, ground, bolted, or precipitated, naturally or artificially, not for toilet use. Soda.Sulphate of soda, or salt cake, and soda ash. Hemlock.Extracts of hemlock bark. Carbon electrodes.Carbon electrodes. Brass.Brass in bars and rods, in coil or otherwise, not less than six feet in length, or brass in strips, sheets, or plates, not polished, planished, or coated. Cream separators.Cream separators of every description, and parts thereof imported for repair of the foregoing. Galvanized iron, etc.Rolled iron or steel sheets, or plates, number fourteen gauge or thinner, galvanized or coated with zinc, tin, or other metal, or not. Wire.Crucible cast-steel wire, valued at not less than six cents per pound. Galvanized iron or steel wire, curved or not, numbers nine, twelve, and thirteen wire gauge. Type machines.Typecasting and typesetting machines and parts thereof, adapted for use in printing offices. Barbed wire.Barbed fencing wire of iron or steel, galvanized or not. Coke.Coke. Wire rods.Rolled round wire rods in the coil, of iron or steel, not over three-eights of an inch in diameter, and not smaller than number six wire gauge. *Proviso*.Exemption in efiect on evidence of free admission by Canada of specified United States articles.*Provided,* That the articles above enumerated, the growth, product, or manufacture of the Dominion of Canada, shall be exempt from duty when the President of the United States shall have satisfactory evidence and shall make proclamation that the following articles, the growth, product, or manufacture of the United States or any of its possessions (except the Philippine Islands and the Islands of Guam Canadian free list.and Tutuila), are admitted into the Dominion of Canada free of duty, namely: Animals.Live animals: Cattle, horses and mules, swine, sheep, lambs, and all other five animals. Poultry.Poultry, dead or alive. Cereals.Wheat, rye, oats, barley, and buckwheat; dried peas and beans, edible. Corn, sweet com, or maize (except into Canada for distillation). Hay, etc.Hay, straw, and cowpeas. Vegetables.Fresh vegetables: Potatoes, sweet potatoes, yams, turnips, onions, cabbages, and all other vegetables in their natural state. Fruit.Fresh fruits: Apples, pears, peaches, grapes, berries, and all other edible fruits in their natural state. Dried fruits: Apples, peaches, pears, and apricots, dried, desiccated, or evaporated. Dairy products.*Proviso*.Return of cans.Dairy products: Butter, cheese, and fresh milk and cream: *Provided,* That cans actually used in the transportation of milk or cream may be passed back and forth between the two countries free of duty, under such regulations as the respective Governments may prescribe. Eggs.Eggs of barnyard fowl, in the shell. Honey.Honey. Cottonseed oil.Cottonseed oil. 11 Seeds: Flaxseed or linseed, cotton seed, and other oil seeds; grassSeeds. seed, including timothy and clover seed garden, field, and other seed not herein otherwise provided for, when m packages weighing over one pound each (not including flower seeds). Fish of all kinds, fresh, frozen, packed in ice, salted or preserved inFish, fresh, etc. any form, except sardines and other fish preserved in oil; and shellfish of all kinds, including oysters, lobsters, and clams in any state, fresh or packed, and coverings of the foregoing. Seal, herring, whale, and other fish oil, including sod oil: *Provided,*Fish oil.*Proviso*.Determination of nationality of fisheries. That fish oil, whale oil, seal oil, and fish of ail kinds, being the product of fisheries carried on by the fishermen of the United States, shall be admitted into Canada as the product of the United States, and similarly that fish oil, whale oil, seal oil, and fish of all kinds, being the product of fisheries earned on by the fishermen of Canada, shall be admitted into the United States as the product of Canada. Salt.Salt. Mineral waters, natural, not in bottles or jugs.Mineral waters. Timber, hewn, sided or squared otherwise than by sawing, andTimber, boards, etc. round timber used for spars or in building wharves. Sawed boards, planks, deals, and other lumber, not further manufactured than sawed. Paving posts, railroad ties, and telephone, trolley, electric light, and telegraph poles of cedar or other woods. Wooden staves of all kinds, not further manufactured than listed or jointed, and stave bolts. Pickets and palings. Plaster rock or gypsum, crude, not ground.Gypsum, mica, etc. Mica, unmanufactured or rough trimmed only, and mica, ground or bolted. Feldspar, crude, powdered or ground. Asbestos not further manufactured than ground. Fluorspar, crude, not ground. Glycerine, crude, not purified.Glycerine. Talc, ground, bolted or precipitated, naturally or artificially, notTalc. for toilet use. Sulphate of soda, or salt cake, and soda ash.Soda. Extracts of hemlock bark.Hemlock. Carbon electrodes.Carbon electrodes. Brass in bars and rods, in coil or otherwise, not less than six feet inBrass. length, or brass in strips, sheets, or plates, not polished, planished, or coated. Cream separators of every description, and parts thereof importedCream separators. for repair of the foregoing. Rolled iron or steel sheets or plates, number fourteen gauge orGalvanized iron, etc. thinner, galvanized or coated with zinc, tin, or other metal, or not. Crucible cast-steel wire, valued at not less than six cents per pound.Wire. Galvanized iron or steel wire, curved or not, numbers nine, twelve, and thirteen wire gauge. Typecasting and typesetting machines and parts thereof, adaptedType machines. for use in printing offices. Barbed fencing wire of iron or steel, galvanized or not.Barbed wire. Coke.Coke. Rolled round wire rods in the coil, of iron or steel, not over three-eighthsWire rods. of an inch in diameter, and not smaller than number six wire gauge. Sec. 2. Pulp of wood mechanically ground; pulp of wood, chemical,Wood pulp, paper, etc., from Canada, admitted free of duty. bleached, or unbleached; news print paper, and other paper, and paper board, manufactured from mechanical wood pulp or from chemical wood pulp, or of which such pulp is the component material of chief value, colored in the pulp, or not colored, and valued at not 12more than four cents per pound, not including printed or decorated wall paper, being the products of Canada, when imported therefrom directly into the United States, shall be admitted free of duty, on the Condition precedent.condition precedent that no export duty, export license fee, or other export charge of any kind whatsoever (whether in the form of additional charge or license fee or otherwise), or any prohibition or restriction in any way of the exportation (whether by law, order, regulation, contractual relation, or otherwise, directly or indirectly), shall have been imposed upon such paper, board, or wood pulp, or the wood used in the manufacture of such paper, board, or wood pulp, or the wood pulp used in the manufacture of such paper or board. Sec. 3. President to negotiate further trade agreements. That for the purpose of further readjusting the duties on importations into the United States of article or articles the growth, product, or manufacture of the Dominion of Canada, and of the exportation into the Dominion of Canada of article or articles the growth, product, or manufacture of the United States, the President of the United States is authorized and requested to negotiate trade agreements with the Dominion of Canada wherein mutual concessions are made looking toward freer trade relations and the further *Proviso*.Submission to Congress for action required.reciprocal expansion of trade and commerce: *Provided, however,* That said trade agreements before becoming operative shall be submitted to the Congress of the United States for ratification or rejection. Approved, July 26, 1911.