Canada announces 'dollar-for-dollar' retaliatory tariffs on US as high as 50%

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—Somehow or other, Uncle Sam, with a revenue-producing tariff wall thrown around his own country, can't see the same thing for China. The State Department has registered a complaint through Consul General Douglas A. Jenkins, at Canton, China, against the proposed plan of the Cantonese government to inspect all foreign ships entering the port to see if they are carrying imports liable for duty. But it is a violation of foreign treaty rights for the Chinese to search foreign vessels in Chinese waters, they are exempt from examination, the State Department thunders at the bewildered Chinese. The United States also protested against an import tax of two and one-half cents on ordinary shipments and five per cent on luxuries, which the Cantonese government put into effect last month. But the protest went unheeded and the duty is being collected, for the Chinese, by the American and British managed customs service. Today, ships entering the port of Canton are inspected by the foreign controlled customs office, but the Chinese want to look over the cargoes themselves—not that they suspect anything, but they fear, perhaps, the American and British inspectors might pass by dutiable cargo or two.