MERCHANDISE MARKS

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 92, 19 April 1920, Page 8

MERCHANDISE MARKS

SUGGESTED DEVICE FOR THE

EMPIRE.

(moM our own correspondent.)

LONDON, 6th February. The Merchandise Marks Committee ie completing its arrangementl; for. taking evidence before proceeding to consider its report.

The committee, with Mr. H. Greer, . M.P., 'as chairman, appointed by the Board of Trade, is dealing in particular with the following questions: — . (1) Whether all imported goods, or particular classes of imported goods, should be required to bear on importation or on sale in this country a statement lie to their origin; whether tho statement should specify the actual country of origin, or should merely indicate that the goods are not of British or not ot United Kingdom origin; and whether any such requirement should extend to goods transhipped in this country or re-exported from this country to British Possessions and foreign countries ?

(2) The advisability of encouraging the institution of an Empire Mark to denote British origin; tho utility and effect of national trade marks and other similai; collective marks; and whether any such mark or marks, if used at all, should bo administered by the Government or by municipalities or by associations of traders ?

(3) Whether any. a,nd what, international action is necessary or desirable to prevent the false marking of goods with indications -of British origin, and to protect regional appellations of origin?