HOW TARIFFS ARE MADE
Australia's tariff has produced reactions in various parts of the world | from New Zealand to Belgium, and from Italy to Fiji. The drama of the potato and the citrus fruits is shortly to be advanced a stage, and at the same time Canberra is busy with the case of the Fijian banana, but the Chinese peanut seems tft have receded into the background. It is extremely likely that the worried Ministers a^ Canberra have no personal objection' at all to either the imported bananal or the imported peanut, but growers in Queensland have votes and ( influence, and the potato growers of Victoria also are adepts in politics as well as in agriculture. So it is not at all certain that the conversations proceeding or pepding will settle outstanding issues with New Zealand and Fiji. Australia's, purchases from Fiji are out of proportion to Fiji's purchases' from Australia, On Canberra figures, Australia buys from Fiji goods'worth £30,000 a year. Last April Fiji thought that Canberra had agreed to'1 remove primage duty on Fiji I bananas. Possibly Canberra thought |so too. But Queensland objected, and l nothing was done. Now Fiji threatens specific retaliation.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 114, 10 November 1934, Page 8
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