CLOSER TIES

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 88, 15 April 1942, Page 6

CLOSER TIES

CANADA AND U.S.A. TRADE RECIPROCITY OTTAWA, April 11. Canada and tne United States are moving to closer economic collaboration on the agricultural front. To be effective next autumn, Canada will facilitate delivery in the United States, at the current United States prices, of whatever quantity of flax seed, oats and barley Canada may be in a position to supply. In return, the United States will facilitate the sale to Canada of vegetable oils or vegetable oil seeds.

The Canadian Bacon Board reports that at the six months mark of the 1942-43 bacon agreement with the British Ministry of Food 326,000,0001b of bacon and pork products had been purchased for Britain. The agreement calls for the delivery of rot less than 600.000,0001b within 12 months. The favourable position in respect to the agreement at the end of the six months' period is attributed by the Bacon Board to: (1) The fact that the people of Canada are doing with less bacon and pork in order to help meet Britain's more urgent needs; and (2) the response and co-operation of Canauian farmers to the board's appeal to increase their shipments of pigs of the desired weights to market. To provide Britain with 274,000,0001b of bacon in the remaining six months of the agreement will require about 2,283,000 pigs. Canada's cheese production has sharply increased. The output for the first three months of 1942 was three times that of the first quarter of 1941.