Trade with Chile
Sir,—Your editorial on the lifting of the Chile trade ban (August 9) is as "silly” as the headline above it. The New Zealand Dairy Board lost its lucrative trade with Chile, before the trade ban was instituted. as the overthrow of the Allende Government brought an end to the Chilean Government's free milk schemes arid such like which had been our biggest market. To claim that the ban hurt the poorest Chileans is ridiculous. Two years ago the call- was for the export of New Zealand whiteware products to Chile — hardly destined for’the poorest markets, especially,. with the prices of New Zealand whiteware. Chile does not have a problem of insufficient food; it is in fact a food exporter. What it.does have is a. problem of severe maldistribution of resources. New Zealand seeds, machinery, and livestock are not much use to campesinos who have- been stripped, of their land.—Yours, etc., L. E. JACKSON. August 9, 1982.
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