This is sometimes true. However. it is a wellknown fact that foreign producers. offering to deliver comparable articles at prices which are below the American costs of production of similar articles. deprive American industries of those orders which are necessary to keep the wheels of industry going. Under our present system of basing tariff duties on foreign values. and with countries debasing their currencies. some as high as 60 per cent of their normal gold value. it might interest some Members of the Senate to know the percentage of some of our imports which are coming into our country from the Asiatic countries with currency debased as high as 60 per cent. For their benefit I have compiled a list of the imports of some commodities and the countries from which these commodities come. It is true that some of these countries. such as France.