U.S. battery sales
PA Wellington New Zealand-made car batteries, which sold in the United States for about $3O less than the New Zealand retail price of $B3, were part of a trial shipment and reflected the depressed and competitive state of the American market, said the Minister of Trade and Industry (Mr Adams-Schneider) in Parliament. Mr F. M. Colman (Lab.,
.Pencarrow) had asked how the batteries came to be sold in the United States for about $3O less than the New Zealand price. Mr Colman asked if the ; New Zealand taxpayer was subsidising American motorists through export incentives.
Mr Adams-Schneider said no, and that the New Zealand price included 20 per cent sales tax.
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