Publisher's Synopsis
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, ?our, 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 ?ax, hemp, and tow, unmanufactured, and rags.
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