Trade

Press, 10 March 1984, Page 16

Trade

Sir,—At a time when New Zea-; land is experiencing difficulty in selling its produce overseas, we? read that a team of E.E.C. experts is arriving to inspect our freezing, works. While the certification of these works is necessary if we wish., to continue exporting to E.E.C. nations, one only has to look at the'. surpluses and stockpiles being created there to realise that their system is not working. We are beginning to suffer similar problems because we are being forced? to put tariffs on incoming goods and subsidise our own exports. ’ Such systems become unmanageable, as shown by our growing queues of unemployed and the millions starving elsewhere. Complete economic and social reforms are needed so that all people have an equal opportunity to sell their goods and services and to buy others, while realising that no; person can trade with another unless they are both prepared to trade with one another.—Yours, etc., PETER W. KENNEDY. March 1, 1984.