CANNED FRUIT TRADE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 144, 20 June 1934, Page 4

CANNED FRUIT TRADE.

COMPLAINTS OF DUMPING. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Tuesday. The conviction that the dumping of Australian canned cruite was being carried out in New Zealand was expressed at a meeting of the Dunedin Manufacturers' Association to-day. Mr. W. Stevenson said that subsidies were granted to the industry in Australia, and he expressed the opinion that half the production of fruit there was sold at a loss, both internally and overseas, The following resolution , was unanimously adopted:—"While Australia may shelter behind the real definition of dumping, which says that the export price must be less than the home consumption value, yet this association is satisfied from the evidence .put before; it that Australian canned fruits are being sold for less than real cost, largely because of the subsidies and concessions granted to the Australian canning industry by the State and Federal Governments, and that therefore the Ivew Zealand canned fruit trade is to all intents and purposes being subjected to very serious dumping from Australia." It was also decided that the Manufacturers' Federation be asked to take the matter up with the Government*