TRADE RESTRICTIONS

Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 102, 2 May 1919, Page 7

TRADE RESTRICTIONS

REMOVED BY UNITED STATES,

The removal of all United States war trade restrictions is announced in a cablegram recently received by the ConsulGeneral at Auckland, Mr. A. A. Winslow, from the Department of State, Washington. The cablegram states that the War Trade Board has authorised the resumption of trade with all countries of the world, except Germany, Hungary, and part of Russia under Bolshevik control.

Further cabled advice has been received that the War Trade Board would announce^ effective on 29th IVpril the suspension of all enemy trading lists, and removal of all disabilities arising out of inclusion in ■ such lists. All persons in the United States would be authorised from that date to trade and communicate with all persons abroad, with whom trade and communication were prohibited by the Trading With the Enemy Act, except that the present restrictions against trade and communication between the United States and Germany, or Hungary, would continue in effect. Similar action, it was stated, would be taken concurrently by the Allied Governments. The cablegram further stated that the foregoing action would not, of course, modify the present prohibition against trade .with parts of Russia under Bolshevik control, the right being reserved to revive all or any part of the previous enemy trade restrictions if it should become necessary. An interesting point in connection with these notifications, said Mr. Winslow, was the clear indication of the position taken by the United States in regard to the Bolsheviks.

With regard to the suspension of enemy trading lists, all Allied countries had similar lists. On the United States list were a large number of American firms of enemy origin, whose operations had been curtailed entirely, also firms in Japan, China, - Straits Settlements-, and other parts of. the world.