TRADE TREATY.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20543, 11 May 1932, Page 10

TRADE TREATY.

DOMINION AND BEIS RATIFICATION POSttiS (PRESS AStOcmiOK 'TIT-HtfL"'^' An announcement ,tjiit imPf had arisen in Belgian «er cation of the Treaty of (wIH which was signed with ItahSN at Wellington in Decianfo iSp* made in the Honse of this afternoon by the Muifclr Customs, the Hon. W Stewart. *- j .*sjS* l ' The main reason for the treaty, he said, had isation that Belgian farmers flttf likely hefore long to prettlfcL? stantial duties on importedfeisP products. It had become quit tfgj that there were limits to the |g|* tive or receptive capacity-" ffig Britain, and that all prima* ffajj ing countries looked to Engl Jil possible destination for, their" *&& The Minister quoted figmft |ig| that New Zealand sent a gfi IjJM portion than the other Dog her export trade in the chkjj Wm products to the United Kftwj Wj& that the products of other i jnji had a greater hold upon mE markets than had New Zealt IS With the rising wall of taral w| tho world, it would vantage to New Zealand if- afijSjl market of one country oaujfgfjl Britain could have hW'-ucnlil Belgian Farmers' OpptHwi "As showing how f&ToqgHHl producers, the Belgian has now advised me that in its present form were the Belgian Parliamejtf tion, it would he reieci«§iwßß strong opposition *—mlnffljMWß mers. It is explained fpfijiHHl treaty was signed the ment was confident ratified, hut the econojm(i||9fiSl so altered the the price of primary that it considers it vaJM E S9||ffl able to go on with sbiw«HHfl present time. stances, it was clear to he gained by to the New Zealand session, more P ar tictuar«|ffl®SSß the r.poroaching hut I hono ** n laWijJglpiiMftM possible to «■"""> "fffi^^^^^mß