BAN ON DUMPING OF GOODS

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27642, 26 April 1955, Page 11

BAN ON DUMPING OF GOODS

N.Z. PROCEDURE TO BE RELAXED

50 PER CENt. DEPOSIT NOt REQUIRED

(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, April 25.

Importers of women’s and girls’ outer garments will not in future be obliged to make deposits of 50 per cent, of the declared value of all importations of certain garments. Such deposits will be taken only in cases where the nature of the importation suggests the possibility of dumping. The Minister of Customs (Mr D. J. Eyre) said on Saturday that since the earlier decision, by which the deposit was made mandatory, a careful watch had been kept on all importations. As a result of urgent consideration of each case where deposits bad been taken, the goods had been released with a minimum of delay, and as far as he knew no complaints of difficulty had been made. “Nevertheless, it is considered that some relaxation can now be made in the procedure, while still safeguarding the interests of local manufacturers against dumping,” said Mr Eyre. The question of whether dumping was involved would be left initially to the collectors of customs. If importers so wished they equid also avail themselves of the existing facility of arranging for their suppliers in Britain to produce evidence at the time of shipment to the official representative of the New Zealand Customs Department in London establishing that dumping was not involved, said the Minister.