Pacific Trade
Sir, —It would appear inevitable that Britain will enter the European Common Market. Is this not the time to begin to integrate our economy with that of Australia and the United States and oerhaps even Japan? Britain is now interested only in Europe and the sooner New Zealand joins a Pacific common market with the countries mentioned the better for our economy. One of the first essentials is to reduce the tariff on goods from the United States and Japan from the most-favoured-nation to that of the British preferential. At the present time British manufacturers are taking advantage of the tariff to charge higher prices than would be the case if goods were imnorted from Japan and the United States on the same basis. In defence our eouipment (including warships) should be purchased from either Australia or the United States. They would
be the only countries we could lean to in the event of aggression in the Pacific.— Yours, etc., ENZED. April 5, 1966.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31030, 9 April 1966, Page 14
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