TARIFF INQUIRY.
HOSIERY MANUFACTURES. IMPORTING FROM ENGLAND. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Submissions were made to the Tariff Commission yesterday, by Mr G. O. Sutton, on behalf of the National Federation of Hosiery Manufacturers' Associations in England and Scotland, asking for a reduction in the duties at present levied on hosiery and knitwear imported into New Zealand from the- United Kingdom.
Mr. Sutton contended that the United Kingdom producer had not as yet been afforded opportunity of reasonable competition with the Now Zealand manufacturer, and ho suggested that without detriment to the New Zealand industry and with considerable advantage to the consumer in New Zealand, the existing duties on United Kingdom goods might bo reduced to a net 15 per cent. The present duties averaged 27J per cent after 10 pur cent had been added to the home consumption value. . The New Zealand manufacturer had three protective factors in his favour, that afforded by geographical position, that afforded by the statutoiy tariff, and that afforded by the depreciation of exchange.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 261, 4 November 1933, Page 15
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