JAPANESE PLEA.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 124, 27 May 1936, Page 7

JAPANESE PLEA.

TARIFF CO-OPERATION. (Received 9.30 a.m.) TOKYO, May 26. Rayon and cotton representatives of eight associations, after a joint meeting, issued a statement denouncing the Australian tariff revision and urging the Japanese Government to take decisive action pledging mutual co-operation. BENEFIT TO BRITAIN. AUSTRALIA'S NEW TARIFFS. (Received 2 p.m.) RUGBY, May 20. In the House of Commons, in an answer regarding tariff amendments recently discussed in the Australian Parliament, the President of the Board of Trade, Mr. Walter Runciman, said that on the basis of recent importstatistics, the reductions made affected United Kingdom trade amounting to £500,000. The Commonwealth Government had introduced important proposals relating to import of cotton and rayon goods, motor cars and some other commodities. While it was not possible to estimate the exact effect of these new proposals on the United Kingdom exports to Ausj tralia, he was glad to say that they j included measures, notably those relat- ' ing to cotton rayon, which should I prove a substantial benefit. Mr. Runciman said that he shared the hope that the Commonwealth Government arrangements would strengthen trade between the two countries.