AUSTRALIAN TARIFF

Evening Star, Issue 19045, 14 September 1925, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN TARIFF

THE NEW PROPOSALS. EFFECT IN BRITAIN. Press Assodation—By Telegraph— Copyright LONDON, September 11. Mr M. L, Shepherd, who is Acting High Commissioner in the absence of Sir Joseph. Cook, writing to the Press, points out that in the proposed tariff changes the one insignificant item of cotton piece goods hardly affects the substantial measure of help which the Australian tariff affords to Britain. During the first half of _ 1925 Australia. was Lancashire’s third best customer. Mr Shepherd points out, further, that cotton, tweeds are a, substitute for woollen tweeds, and therefor compete with the cheaper Australian woollens. Cotton tweeds represented only 1 per cent, of Australia’s imports of cotton piece goods.—A. and N.Z. Cable. A DUBIOUS ADVANTAGE. LONDON, September 12. The ‘Daily Nows,’ in an editorial, says that Australia’s now tariff is another example of the. dubious advantage of Imperial Preference to Britain. Australian products have free access to tho British market, but British goods sent to Australia _ are handicapped by formidable tariffs, of which they received only slight modification compared with the foreigner. Australia House dismisses the blow to cotton tweeds as an insignificant item, but, in view of the representatives’ hope that tho Commonwealth Government would modify its proEi.ls, expensive machinery has been down specially to supply cotton tweeds to Australia, when it was not suspected they would ho given such disconcerting preference, as a tariff doubling tho selling pries..—A. and N.Z. Cable.