AMERICAN TARIFF

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 24, 27 July 1929, Page 11

AMERICAN TARIFF

MEAT BOARD PROTESTS

Tlio Now Zealand Meat Producers' Board reports that it has been continuallym touch .with the United States tariff position and has on various occasions made tho < strongest protests against any inoreaso in the tariff cm meat. "During 1928 New Zealand nnportod goods from tho Unitod fetates to the valuo of £8,204,197, whilst that country took from this Dominion only £4,260,315 worth of goods, showing that the present trade balance as between the two countries is ereatlv in favour of the United States, and it is to be deplored that such tariff le<TislaI tion is contemplated, for if the proposed duties are brought into operation it will have tho effect of considerably reducing our shipments and may evou preclude the entry of any of our meat into the United States, thus further increasing the adverse balance of trade as between the two countries. If such a position |is reached it will further strengthen the desire of Now Zealauders, especially the producers, to give further preference to the purchase of goods manufactured in Britain."

The board has been going into the question of boning and rolling the various cuts of beef and packing in boxes for shipment to the United States market, and it has sent forward a trial shipment. For the twelve months ended 31st May, 1929, the following quantities of New Zealand frozen meat were landed in North America:—l 49 665 quarters beef; 8246' carcasses mutton--42,491 carcasses lamb; 60,670 bags boneless beef; 4072 packages sundries.