TIN CLIPPINGS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 4, 5 July 1939, Page 5

TIN CLIPPINGS

EXPORT POSITION

A RESTRICTED MARKET

(By Telegraph.) (Special to the 'Evening Post.")

DUNEDIN, This Day.

Representations have been made repeatedly to the Government by local exporters for permission to export tin clippings and as repeatedly they have been refused. Now the Government has decided to relax the embargo on tin clippings up to a point. It will consider the export of specified quantities to one company in Sydney. The position is that local companies that have been handling this trade for some time up to the imposition of the restrictions have been restricted to their one avenue by which they can sell their stocks, and the company concerned has representatives in New Zealand. Tin clippings, raw material from which cannot be extracted and used for commercial purposes in this country, are worth about £5 a ton when exported. It was a profitable trade until the Government decided to place a strict embargo on it. Sales now can be made through representatives of the Sydney company in Dominion centres or by direct approach to the company.

-England can absorb and treat satisfactorily a great deal more than, this isolated Sydney company can." hope to cope with. Local companies, with a complete knowledge of the . trade, consider that they have reason to protest at the action of the Government in removing their opportunity to supply to their earlier connections in favour of this Australian concern, especially when local agents enter the picture. They consider that there should be no cause to bring in a local agent, who previously had no part in the business. Another point raised ! was that if export could be made to ! Australia why not to England?