TRADE RIVALS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 143, 19 June 1931, Page 7

TRADE RIVALS

ARGENTINE BUSINESS

BRITAIN AND AMERICA

PROPAGANDA V, PRICES

A WASHINGTON REPORT,

(United Tress Association —By Electric T«I»----graph—Copyright.) (Received 19th June, 11 a.m.)] : WASHINGTON, 18th June. British trade propaganda in Argentina is described as a veiled attack on Argentine-American friendship, in a study by Mr. George J. Eder, Chief of the Commerce Department's Latin-American Division. His report, which is one of four which are being sponsored by the Carnegie Peace Foundation, named Sir Mal« colm Robertson, the British Ambassador to Argentina, as a chief proponent of the slogan "Buy from those who buy from us." He also said that the visit of the Prince of Wales was designed primarily as an. attack upon American mercantile supremacy. : . . SKILL ADMITTED . . '' The most skilful aud influential commorcial propagandists in, Argentina are British statesmen, merchants, bankers, industrialists, and others, who, for years have endeavoured to instil, and wield influence in favour of. British goods," states the report.; : Mr. Edcr added that ho believed American merchants and manufacturers had little to fear from British, competition, because one-fourth of America's Argentine exports! ivere goods which Britain did ■ not manufacture, and half of them were, of such, a nature that British factories could Mot turn them out now at competitive prices. . ' . / ■ ■■'..- He pointed to the reorganisation of Britain's entire social and economic structure as necessary before American price competition could b« met.' ■■...■