TRADE BARRIERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 151, 29 June 1927, Page 7

TRADE BARRIERS.

Lowering Of Tariffs | Essential. VIEWS ON WORLD ECONOMICS. (TCi'oeived 12 tio.>n > STOCKHOLM. June -**. "Trade to-day is suffering from ton many anrl two high trade barriers," declared Sir Alan Anderson at the opening of the International Chamber of Commerce Congress. "Each National Committee must convinee itself that its own trade will be helped by lowering its own trade barriers, and must say mi boldly to it* own Government, whether free trader or] protectionist. j '"None must recant in fiscal faith, but must say that living standards are being ' lowered by the barriers threatening the best civilisation the world has known." Professor Gustnv Cassel (Sweden) criticised State subsidies and bounties, and urged the insistent need of stability and uniformity, and. above all. an investigation as to whether they could not limit these by general economic disarmament. The Goriii.ii) Ministci of Economics. Dr. Julius Curt ills, said: "Europe's salvation lies in the abandonment of exaggerated protectionism ami the restoration of irer commercial eoni;.etion." — (A. and X.Z. iind Sydney •■Sun.") Professor Gustav Camel is one of the world's best known experts on questions i of finance and world economics in general, lie has twice been requested l.\ the Leapue ot Nations to prepare reports on the world's currency problems, and in ! 1022 he was asked by the German Goveri-1 nient to report on the economic situati r,i ' in Germany. He is a native or Stockholm. 1 Sweden, but studied economies in bo'.lij England and Germany, returning in I!>J 1' to take up n position at Stockholm | I nivcrsity as professor of politic :1 • economy. i Dr. Julius (,'urtius I Germany 1 studu-dl economics in Paris in ]!)](>. but is better I known as a statesman. In January. Ifrj'i. | he entered the second Luther Cabinet ;i.»l Minister of National Economy. WVil! versed in questions relating to trade and industry, lie is in close touch with t'n-i industrial magnates. He has been spoken of as a possible German Chancellor. Sir Allan Garret Anderson is a direct.•: of the Bank oi' England, a joint-maiiaK ,l !'! of the Orient Steamship Line, a director ot the L. M. and S. railway Compnn..| and vice-prcßident of the Intern.itii.n-l' Chamber of Commerce. ;