Thank you for correcting the text in this article. Your corrections improve Papers Past searches for everyone. See the latest corrections.

This article contains searchable text which was automatically generated and may contain errors. Join the community and correct any errors you spot to help us improve Papers Past.

Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image

Plastics talks continue

A deputation from the Australian plastics industry will be in New Zealand later this month for a second round of talks on developing country tariff preferences. Last month representatives of the Plastics Institute of New Zealand had talks in Canberra. The institute's executive director. Mr Bruce Dunlop, said they had had a "good hearing" from the Australian Departments of Trade and of Industries and Commerce. “Industries and Commerce clearly have sympathy for the manufacturers’ view, whilst the Department of Trade was concerned with the broader political and international trade implications of the review of the DC Preference Scheme," he said. The deputation had argued that if the preferences continued for plastics, then transTasman trade in plastics products would probably diminish in the long term as import licensing was phased out. “The original basis for the preferences was to assist certain countries to be competitive on export markets with products from developed nations,” said Mr Dunlop. “In terms of plastics products however, several of the countries concerned including Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong and the Philippines no longer need the preferences to compete on the Australian and New Zealand markets. “Experience in Australia has shown that imports of plastics products from those countries are sufficiently competitive to seriously damage local manufacturers, even if the normal tariffs were applied. “The same will happen in New Zealand as import licensing is removed,” Mr Dunlop said. Even without the preferences, those countries would still be highly competitive on the Australian and New Zealand markets, he said. Mr Dunlop said the institute believed that the developing country preferences on plastics products were now an anomaly with some countries, given the industrial development which has taken place in recent years.

Permanent link to this item

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19840411.2.146

Bibliographic details

Press, 11 April 1984, Page 36

Word Count
287

Plastics talks continue Press, 11 April 1984, Page 36

Plastics talks continue Press, 11 April 1984, Page 36

Help

Log in or create a Papers Past website account

Use your Papers Past website account to correct newspaper text.

By creating and using this account you agree to our terms of use.

Log in with RealMe®

If you’ve used a RealMe login somewhere else, you can use it here too. If you don’t already have a username and password, just click Log in and you can choose to create one.


Log in again to continue your work

Your session has expired.

Log in again with RealMe®


Alert