Additional References Relating To Reciprocity In Trade Between Canada And The United States Of America Nov 1911 PDF Download

Excerpt from The Proposed Reciprocal Trade Arrangement Between Canada and the United States of America The Agreement is the outcome of a movement extending over many years, and it impossible to estimate its significance apart from the conditions which moulded the poll. Y of Canada and the United States respectively during that period. The adoption of Free Trade by the United Kingdom was accompanied by the abandonment, notwithstanding Canadian protests, of the old preferential policy which had been in force in regard to Canada and the other Dominions of the Crown. These conditions forced upon Canada an arrangement for reciprocal trade with the United States known as the elgin-marcy treaty, which continued from 1854 to 1866. This treaty established Free Trade between Canada and the United States in the following articles and in them alone: grain, flour, and bread - stuffs animals of all kinds; fresh, smoked, and salted meats timber and lumber of all kinds, round, hewed, sawed, and unmanufactured cotton-wool; seeds and vegetables; undried and dried fruits; fish of all kinds; products of fish and all other creatures living in the water; poultry, eggs hides, furs, Skins or tails, undressed; stone or marble in its crude and unwrought state; slate; butter, cheese, tallow, lard; ores of metals of all kinds; coal; unmanufactured tobacco; pitch, tar, turpentine, and ashes; firewood; plants, shrubs, and trees; pelts; wool; rice and broom corn; barks; gypsum, ground and unground; wrought and unwrought burr and grindstones dye-stuffs flax, hemp, and tow, unmanufactured, and rags. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.