CUSTOMS FRAUDS.
SYSTEMATIC UNDER-VALUATION
UNITED STATES TREASURY ROBBED.
United Press Association, Copyright
NEW YORK, Dec. 21
The committee enquiring into the American tariff discovered that the Treasury has been losing enormously through the systematic under-valua-tion of goods, especially on the part of Germany, Switzerland, and Japan. The Government appraiser admits that the British valuation is the most honest in the Avorld. . The United States Government has asked European GoA'crnments to compel exporters to make valuations on oath. All have agreed, except Germany.
A Avitness declared that a- New York laAvycr received a fee of £15.000 mud another £50,000 for suggesting means of evading the Customs on tAA'o individual shipments.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2381, 23 December 1908, Page 5
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109CUSTOMS FRAUDS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2381, 23 December 1908, Page 5
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