BRITISH GOODS FOR EXPORT

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23085, 30 July 1940, Page 8

BRITISH GOODS FOR EXPORT

INTERESTING LIST RECEIVED ITEMS IN SHORT SUPPLY IN DOMINION Lists which show that certain goods and commodities which New Zealand firms have found difficulty in obtaining are. classified by British Chambers of, Commerce as "available to a limited extent” and “readily available for export purposes” have been provided in a circular from Great Britain received by the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce. The circular is from the National General Export Merchants’ Group of the main British Chambers of Commerce, and is mainly a statement of plans to expand British export trade to overseas Unarkets hitherto supplied by Germany and other countries. The circular contains an appeal for Canterbury’s assistance by supplying local information about the market for goods which could be obtained from Great Britain. As a preliminary step, the secretary of the Canterbury chamber (Mr J. Roy Smith) has sent copies of the circular to all members, and details will be discussed at their next meeting. The circular has taken the precaution of stating that the lists of goods are only a general guide and will be subject to constant modification. They were effective at least until June 4. the date on which the circular was sent from Great Britain. : In the section “likely to be available to a limited extent," it was interesting to note, Mr Smith said, the inclusion of wire of various kinds, including wire for nails. There had been definite difficulties here in efforts to import certain of these wires. Two other items in this classification were razor blades and railway material (rails, switches and rolling stock) which had apparently been somewhat in short supply. In the list of goods classed as readily obtainable for export were paper and printing machinery, knitting wool, and firefighting equipment—three items about which there was apparently import difficulty' here. Another item was bicycles, now being manufactured in Austrslis The list, Mr Smith said, would probably provide importers with some interesting comparisons, though, of course, the problem in the Dominion was a dual one—import restrictions here and export restrictions in Britain. The list classified as readily obtainable for export includes:—Agricultural implements (edge tools, etc., but not tractors), automatic machines, axes and hatchets, bicycles, bottles (glass), caffein. cameras, camphor (paste), cement, china and porcelain, circular saws (and others), clocks and watches, coconut butter (vegetalina). coloured porcelain. composition tiles and proofed cloth, cotton textiles, cutlery, electrical products and machinery, explosives (geli -nite, fuses, etc., for industrial purposes), files,, fine mechanical and optical products, films, firefighting equipment, glass, hoes, hops, kitchen utensils (enamelware), kitchen utensils (aluminium), kitchen utensils (other metals plated and otherwise, including trays, dishes), knitting wool, lead pencils, linoleum, machinery and equipment for water transport, medicines (general salves, creams), metal hammers, metal locks, milling and grinding machines, motorcars (light, up to one and a half tons), motor-cycles, motor machinery, musical instruments, other chemical products, other machinery, paper (sundry, writing, blotting, wrapping, cigarette, glazed, and otherwise), paper and printing machinery, pharmaceutical products, photo-chemical products, porcelain tiles, pumps, rubber goods, sedatives (drugs), silk thread, spinning machinery, sundry raw materials for chemical products, table linen and bed linen (common), thermometers, barometers, typewriters, woollen, textiles. ,