Abstract

The Week

The article focuses on several issues related to finance in the United States. Some complaints have recently been heard from exporters of canned goods over a ruling of the United States Treasury Department requiring the actual inspection of all articles of export upon which a drawback is claimed. As it appears to be a physical impossibility to make this inspection with the force at the disposal of the Government, the exporters have been compelled to let some of their goods go without obtaining any drawback upon the tin cases in which they are packed. The net purport and effect of the McKinley tariff on tin plate has been to transfer from the pockets of the American people to those of the importers of that article a very large sum of money. The smart fellows, who pretended to make tin plate and who distribute Welsh plate in the form of tin cups, pans, and whistles as the genuine American article, "loaded up" with the imported article before the new tariff took effect.