TRADE AGREEMENT
TREATY; OF RECIPROCITY.
'ADOPTED BY COMMONWEALTH
SPLIT ON TWO ITEMS—RAISINS
AND OATS.
(UHIIED - TRESS ASSOCIATION—COPTKIOHT.j
(Received 14th October, noon.)
MELBOURNE, This Day
The 'Minister of Customs (Mr. Massey Green), moved that the following additional items in the Reciprocal Trade Agreement with New Zealand be ratified : Preserved meats in tins, 2d a 1b; sheets and roofing slates of cement and asbestos ad valorem 10 per cent; dairying machines and implements, free; corn and millet brooms, ad valorem 30 per cent.
The Minister explained there had been a split on two items. Australia desired the free entry into New Zealand of dried fruits, particularly currants and raisins, while New Zealand.would agree only on condition that New Zealand was allowed free entry for oats. He was not prepared to surrender Australian oat-grow-ers _to competition, even, if the dried fruit market were lost.
The resolution, with the accompanying Bill, passed all stages.
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 91, 14 October 1922, Page 7
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150TRADE AGREEMENT Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 91, 14 October 1922, Page 7
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