GERMAN TRADE

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 142, 19 June 1922, Page 7

GERMAN TRADE

AUSTRALIAN RESUMPTION

THE DANGER OF OUT PRIDES.

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SYDNEY, 18th June. Mr. Graham, ex-president of the Commercial Travellers' Association, refei--ring at the annual dinner to the re-open-ing of tlv Australian markets to German goods, urged the meeting to regard the date of this reopening in the same light as the 4th August, 1914. "If we deal with Germany," he said, "let it be only under compulsion."

'Mr. Simpson, British Trade Commissioner, declared himself as being sceptical about th 6 ability of the Germans to undercut British or Australian goods on-our markets. He said that he had had experience, on the resumption of English tradg with Germany, of the repudiation of contracts by German firms, who had quoted ridiculously low rates. Their excuse was inability to obtain export licenses, but it proved to be untrue. He thought that the legislation passed by the Federal Government would stop undercutting. He asked the meeting to wait till Ist August, and then he thought it would. b e found that in the main German goods would not he found: to be competing with British, manufactures.