Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 19, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba 10 Winnipeg Friesss. Thursday. July 19, 1973 whisky Wai waged by Mil haul i Washington Router a quiet Little whisky War i being waged Here be weel titans u tile am Riean hour Bon and scotch whisky Indus tries. The Battle is Over a 105 year old Law that taxes imported bottled whisky about 10 per Rait higher than but tied american liquor. The Battlefield is Congress particularly the House of representatives ways and Means committee n o w considering president Nixon s Trade Bill. Inside that groundbreaking document is an obscure clause virtually comprehensible to the Lay Man unfamiliar with the tech Nical jargon of die world of International Trade. But that paragraph could make void the Law which Britain considers a penalty tax against its bottled whisky. . Producers contend the government would lose million a year in Revenue if the method of taxation is changed. The scotch whisky Industry asserts that seme new jobs might be created in Bri Tain if the method of taxation was changed since More peo ple might he employed in bottling scotch. Sources within Congress Are betting that . Industry will win this Battle. The Trade Bill requested by Nixon would give him virtually unprecedented Power to negotiate both Tariff and non Tariff barriers to Trade. The old whisky tax is considered a non Tariff Barrier. The whisky Section of the Trade Bill would give Mxon authority to change the method of taxing imported bottles of scotch rum Vodka Cana Dian whisky or Oiler drinks. Congressional sources be 1 i e v e that at the least. Congress is expected to write provisions into the Trade Bill to give Congress a veto Ixo War Over any Trade changes Nixon might make or negotiate on his own. Some . Distillers contend the higher tax has not Hurt scotch sales which have shown a meteoric Rise in the last decade. In 1955, total scotch and Ca Nadian whisky imports accounted for Only 14.5 per cent of the entire . Market. Scotch represented 8.4 per cent. But in 1972, according to . Statistics total imparts accounted for 38 per cent of the Market with scotch Cap Turing 21 per cent of All sales. The 1868 Law carried Forth in More recent tax Laws pro Vides a whisky tax of per . Proof gallon mean ing a . Gallon of 100 proof spirits. 50 per cent alcohol by most scotch comes to the United states in bottles at 86 proof but the old Law taxes the bottled scotch As if it were 100 proof. That is the provision the scottish distillers want to eliminate. They want the 86 proof whisky in bottles taxed As such. Neuter s safer Victoria up the male chauvinists of Box 529 who advertised for a research Assis Tant for the two Man progressive conservative party caucus in the British Columbia Legisla Ture Are under attack. Their newspaper and asked for the Man to meet the Chal lenge1 for the Job and women s libbers Are torn planning. Kathleen Ruff director of the government s human rights office said she has received two complaints about the sex is discrimination in the and. This kind of advertisement is said is. Ruff. Conservative Rila Hugh Curtis Stanich and the is lands apologized for the and. Saying it was the result of a Rush Job in preparing the copy. It should have read person instead of he said. "11 was purely and simply a mis take a regrettable one. I m sorry it read that j despite the wording several women have applied for the Post and arc being considered j for the Job he said. Of the four1 research assistants now attached to the Liberal social credit and new democratic parties in the legislature Only one Grace Mccarthy is a woman. She works for tic so Cial credit Cacus. 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