BRITISH EXPORT TRADE

Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 39, 17 February 1919, Page 7

BRITISH EXPORT TRADE

REMOVAL ,OF RESTRICTIONS.

, A cablegram has been received by H.M. Trade Commissioner from the Board of Trade, 'London, emphasising the importance of British export trade at the present time, and stating that the following goods have been placed on the -free list, and now require no export license : —Artists' material, athletic goods, bicycles but not tires, bicycle' accessories, buttons (except military, horn, and vegetable ivory), cigar and cigarette holders, china and earthenware, 'chinaclay, clocks, cutlery, drugs '(various), fancy goods (of paper, ivory, leather, etc.), films subject to censorship, flower seeds^ fountain pens, furs (dressed, dyed or manufactured), glassware, builders' hardware of iron or steel), ink, jewellery (imitation or pearl), laces, laundry machinery, ledgers, marble, mineral waters (unsweetened), musical instruments, office furniture, pictures and paintings, phonographs, photographic materials (not chemical), razors (safety and blades), silk ribbons, spectacles, sewing machines, wallpaper. .

The following are some of the principal commodities for which licenses are still required:—Abrasives, agricultural machinery, cement, chemicals (various), .coal and coke, oils, pipes (castiron), packing cases, railway material, resine, coaltar products, copper (wrought and unwrought, including wire and alloys), dyes, foodstuffs, food for livestock, glue, iron bars, billets, and constructional material), motor spirit, metals (various), shipbuilding material, steel (angles, ingots ; plates, and similar raw material), textile machinery, textile yarns, fibres and waste, tinplate, war material, wire, wirerope, wood and timber. Prohibition of exportation of raw materials does not extend to goods manufactured from such materials. .