Berlin, May 19.
The Minister of Economic Affairs: announced that the Government introducing moderate customs ties to protect industries.—Ths Dighest duties will be on automobiles. explaining the new tariff pro-rosals heavily ineveasing duties on Cotton and woollen goods, artificial ilk_and motor cars the Minister Economic Affairs said that they were merely transitory and intend-to serve as a weapon in bargaining with ther countries with a few to reciprocal reductions. The <conomie reasons for the increases vere the heavy burdens on industry through taxation, reparations, short of capital and high rates of tvterest. The commercial reasons were that powerful competing eounties, thave from which Germany drew raw materials, had introduced Righ tariff barriers, the lowering} of which was essential to German industry if it was to survive.
The Minister of Economic Affairs said that the duties on motor cars and tractors were of a special character, because foreign manu Jacturers' enjoyed an extraordinary start over the German motor industry. Therefore the duties on imported cars would be higher than on other products, amounting to about 350 Reichsmarks per vehicle. These duties would be reduced half yearly stages to the normal tariff, and the same procedure would be followed for the gradual reduetion of duties on tractors.
As regards the Customs duties on
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