FRANCE AND AUSTRALIAN TRADE.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 190, 11 August 1921, Page 5

FRANCE AND AUSTRALIAN TRADE.

SUGGESTED RECIPROCITY. MR. HUGHES TO INQUIRE. (Received 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, August 10. A represenitaAive of the French Minister of Commerce waited on Mr. \V. M. Hughes to-day, and explained that the I Frencli GOTernment desired tariff reci- 1 procity with Australia. He submitted p . a schedule of great length as a. fiiample. I Mt. Ilugihes undertook to see what .' poiiild be dione, land assuTed France of : syinpaibhy and every possible consider- ' ation. Mr. Hugihjes also -promised to discuss tihe matter fully with tihe French. Gov- ' crnmerat when he visits Paris at the end ' of the month. It is a •co'iincidcnce thwt a kindred matter was mentioned in the House of Commons to-day, when Mr. Cecil Harmsworth. Under-Secretary for Foreign | Affairs, admitted that the French Government had represented that, the British Anti-Dumping Bill was likely to prejudice French exports. To this Britain replied pointing out t-liait France had recently introduced an increased ■fcairilT aimed at safeguarding French industries from countries 'having depreciated exchanges. Mr. J. C. Wedgwood: "If an AngiloFre noli tariff war threatens, let us publish all the correspondence." Mr. Harmsworbh: ''There is no prospect of a tariff war."—(A. aid N.Z.)