A TARIFF BLOW

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 68, 17 September 1930, Page 13

A TARIFF BLOW

■BUTTER MR CANADA

STILL HIGHER DUTIES

Private cabled advices have been received in Wellington to-day to the effect that the Canadian Dominion Parliament of Canada is considering the imposition of the following import duties on butter: — British preferential tariff, 8 cents (4d) per pound. Intermediate tariff, 12 cents (6d); anct General tariff, 14 cents (7d). The existing duty on New Zealand butter is one cent (id) per pound. It was decided to raise the duty from one cent to four cents against New Zealand butter as from 12th October. This step.was regarded by the New Zealand Government as unfriendly with certain results to the Canadian motor-car import trade, with which the public is. now familiar. The imposition of an eight-cent duty on New Zealand butter would practically exclude it from Canada, assuming that Canadian-taade butter did not go to such high prices as to make it profitable business to import from New Zealand. . • ■ The effect of these- new and higher duties, if given effect to, may have j a weakening influence on tho New ■ Zealand butter market in the United Kingdom, in as much as Canada had already grown into a most valuable second market. Exports of New Zealand butter to Canada last season'were^approximately 800,000, boxes, valued' at, roughly, £2,800,000. The loss of this trade would be .fairly- serious to Nevr Zealand.. -