HEAVY INCREASES.
ITALIAN TEXTILE PRICES. (United Pre9s Association —Copyright.) ROME, November 27. The Italian Government has authorised heavy increases in prices iri woollen textiles, ranging from 60 per cent, on pure wool, and 35 to 65 on yarns. Retailers are allowed to make a proportionate increase to enable profits to be maintained at the rate fixed in September, 1936. Importers are compelled to pay the Government an exorbitant rate for foreign exchange needed to import wool from Australia. FRENCH PROTEST AGAINST TAX. PARIS, November 27. A delegation representing French wool interests has strongly * protested to the Government against a proposed tax of 8 per cent, on exports of certain woollen goods.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 42, 29 November 1937, Page 5
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