AUSTRALIAN TARIFF.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 152, 9 April 1930, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN TARIFF.

EFFECT ON EMPIRE TRADE. AN AMERICAN VIEWPOINT. (United Press Association—Copyright.) NEW YORK, April 7. The “New York Times,” in a leader entitled “Protectionist Australia,” states that the new duties “are symptomatic of the state of mind which cannot but affect this country as well as Britain.” After discussing the increase of Australian tariffs in recent years, the article continues: —“American manufacturers may now better understand the resentment of Canadians and South Americans against the increases in the American tariff on the various staples of those countries. It is in relation to the scheme for Free Trade within the Empire that the latest Act is chiefly interesting. Britain enjoyed preference on most goods entering Australia, but the opposition to preference is steadily growing; in fact the avowed purpose of the emergency measure is to cut Australian imports by about GO million) dollars. In England itself this plan cannot but dampen the ardour of the advocates of Imperial Free Trade. The latest Tariff Act of Australia makes it more , than plain that the Dominions will have none of this sort of special privilege for England, and that they are thinking of their own needs first. However mistaken their policy may seem .to be to the advocates of Imperial Free Trade, it cannot be ignored! that the tendency in the Dominions is clearly/ toward more, not less protection.”