The Canada–U.S. Pact Any 'reduction in tariffs inevitably evokes protests
from industries from which protection is wholly or impart with- drawn. No excessive attention, therefore,' need be paid to the clamour that has greeted the signature of the trade treaty between Canada and the United States, mainly oil the Southern side of the frontier. Limited in its scope.
though the treaty. is to be observed that where American tariffs on agricultural imports from Canada are lowered only a limited quantity of goods may be imported at the. reduced rate, the residue .coming under the existing tariff—it marks a real beginning of a moVe# ment for.the_reduction of tariff barriers, and Mr. Mackenzie Xing is to be congratulated- on the dispatch with which he has taken the matter in -hand immediately on his installation in office. Criticism on the Canadian side is markedly restrained, even Conservative papers agreeing that valuable new outlets for Canada's primary industries have been created. But business interests in the United States 'are adepts at lobbying, and the opposition Mr. Roosevelt will have to face has not developed fully yet.''
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