TRADE NEGOTIATIONS

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 115, 18 May 1938, Page 11

TRADE NEGOTIATIONS

BRITAIN AND AUSTRALIA

SCOPE MAY BE WIDENED

(Received May 18, 9 ajn.)

LONDON, May 17,

The political correspondent of the Australian Associated Press states that the scope of the Anglo-Australian trade negotiations may be widened to include Canada, and that this possibility will be discussed when the first full meeting of the British and Australian delegations is held on May 19, with representatives of the Board of Trade, the Dominions Office, and the Ministry of Agriculture.

It is understood Sir Earle Page and his fellow-delegates feel that with time passing there is still no sign of a real commencement of business and that something should be done to indicate the programme of talks, but that difficulties continue because the British seem uncertain as to the order of procedure, which is complicated by negotiations between Britain and America, Britain and Australia, Australia and U.S.A., and U.S.A. ' and Canada being so inter-dependent. Apparently the Canadians consider they cannot conclude their discussions with the United States in view of America's demands for the removal of preferences, until they know where they stand with Australia. Accordingly the -Australians feel that the negotiations might be better approached if a Canadian delegation came to London.