It is easy to understand the logic of Imposition of import tax on raw materials which would compete with the staple products of China itself and on which In part her prosperity depends. It is understood. therefore Why it' proved "impossible to sell artificial silk underwear despite the big demands for it which was found {nother cities, seeing that the ray] materials coming, into China bear Import duty of 90 per cent. in order that in this country at least ure silk will have a belier chance Of sale. Fabric gloves locally manufactured of artificial sik " equally could not compete, since they were made of raw material bearing a 92 per cent. import duty, Where the tense of Import duties "breaks down where they imposed materials which are not yet being produced in China and inthe near future do not seem likely tobe Time enough when the first manvfacturer of them sets himself up ang asks for protection. tire on mew dies, new moulds, to meet the types elsewhere demanded. China factories have to learn to be fable to make a lip to. jugs! New izes and new shapes must not be Shied at. But methods too, are im portant, The button manufacturer whose cards of buttoné are sewed by band. by women and girls, earning thereby 20 cents—a great gross, twelve dozen, cannot compete with the apanese manufacturer whose buttons fare sewn on, more in a day than 19 month in 'China, "by a. rapidly working machine whose initial cost Soon. pays for itself. Chinese button manufacturers use' a dead white fresh-water clam from Szechuen Japanese makers uso a more pleasing Iridescent salt water shell. But tne Tapanese price is twenty to thirty per cent, cheaper.
Drawback Essential general however, over a, diss tressingly wide range of products, was found that the only' factor Nerfering between the possibility of the marketing of the goods of Chinese factories and its actuality is that very import duty examples of which have been quoted. In other coun: {rles, governmental' encouragement of the export trade has found away out of the dimeulty presented by Payment of Import duty on goods for re-export by the use of the: Cuse toms drawback, To an enquiry who: ther it would be possible for China, also, to remove the incubus from her own trade by the use of this device, the trader was informed that the experiment had been made in 1032, but that t had been abandoned by the 'Customs as being impracticable, 'The trader is not very well informed on the subject, He" understands that tone of the diMeultion was that the regulations. governing the matter im: posed a condition under' which a Grawback would be available only it" "goods " were " re-exported their' original packings. He wonders hhow it would be possible to re-export side wire when' manufactured Ing nails in the same wrappings In whic arrived ab wire!
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