Duties on Canadian pork
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favorable to the the pork industry’s
case. Specifically, the ITC ruled
that the industry had been injured
by the alleged subsidies.
The Commerce Department
estimated that the subsidy
amounted to $3.90 per hun
dredweight on live hogs and pork
products. That would result in a
duty of about $8.40 on a 220-pound
hog.
The estimated subsidy is the
amount Canadian importers must
post as a bond, pending the final
outcome of the case.
The further deliberations could
increase, decrease, eliminate or
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Though Ford was impressed, Ferguson failed to get his backing and this led to manufactures George and Eber
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plows were fitted to thousands of Ford tractors between 1922 and 1921
Then disaster struck. Henry Ford, having trouble making his tractors pay, announced that he was discontinuing
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He commenced work on the assumption that a variety of implements to cover all basic farming needs would be
required, and that the end-product of it all would have to be greater farm productivity at lower cost
, The hand-built prototype was completed in his Belfast garage workshop in 1933 Today it is part of the collection of
leading British inventions preserved at the Science Museum in London.
With two assistants, he had produced a revolution in agricultural engineering. The tractor weighed only sixteen
hundred pounds which, with two other features, set it apart from anything else in the tractor field, the three-point
linkage system and the associated hydraulic control of the implement Ferguson had perfected what was to become
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By the prevailing standards then, the tractor was more than a mere lightweight it was ridiculously small and at
first greeted alike by farmers, traditionalists and cynics with taunts and derision.
Ferguson survived because as well as being a superb salesman, he was an ace demonstrator Time and again he
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The hydraulic lift that was combined with the tractor's linkage system was'a major labor saver, as well as making
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Capable of lifting a load of up to one ton, it enabled the farmer to hitch on his implement and raise it up for
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(top) Early plowing method plow hitched
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maintain the estimated amount of
the duty, said Commerce
Department trade spoke m
Chris Parian. A complete i« me t .
of the preliminary duty occurs in
30 to 50 percent of the cases, he
added.
“I’d expect that the Canadians
will say the duty is too high, and
the pork producers will say it’s too
low,“ Parian said.
True to his prediction, the
NPPC, in a statement com
mending the department for the
ruling, noted that they will "at
tempt to convince the Commerce
Department to raise the duty rate
on processed pork products.’’
The hydraulic system automatically kept the imple
ment at a constant depth, or it could be adjusted as it
went along At the end of the field, the implement was
lifted out of the soli so that the tractor could be turned
quickly and easily, ready to resume work with the
Implement lowered again into the ground and all
without the driver stopping the tractor or leaving his
seat
Essentially, however, the key secret of Ferguson’s
tractor design was the way in which the linkage
transferred the weight of the implement onto the tractor
to give wheel gnp and traction In work, even more
weight was transferred onto the tractor wheels by the
forces the implement generated in trying to dig-in
deeper as it was pulled through the ground
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AlthougtktyJPPC still believes the
strong dollar isthe major culprit in
the flood of it said, “the
preliminary countervailing duties
ruling should (ounter the effect of
the unfair government subsidies
being paid Canadian producers,
and should alleviate the problem
considerably.
It quoted University of Missouri
ag economist Glenn Grimes as
saying that the duties, if unposed
this summer, would curb Canadian
pork imports by 10 to 15 percent for
the rest of 1985, and by as much as
30 to 50 percent thereafter.
Parian said the Commerce
Department will accept public
comment on the proposed duties
through May 1, and conduct a
public hearing on the issue by
about Mav 3. It should tmabze it.
decision on or about June 10, he
said
The final determination in the
case will be up to the ITC, which
will havp 45 '••jvc following
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Commerce Department action to
make its own ruling.
Any duties collected would he
paid to the general fund of the U.S.
Treasury.
College, Geiger holds a bachelor’s
degree in animal husbandry, In
addition, she is an American
Association of Lab Animal Science
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Pennsylvania.
She is the daughter of Anton and
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