LIQUOR QUOTAS

Evening Star, Issue 21667, 12 March 1934, Page 9

LIQUOR QUOTAS

POSITION IN AMERICA TEMPORARY RELAXATION Pr«« Association—Bjr Telegraph—Copyright. WASHINGTON, March 10. President lloosevelt announced today tlie lifting of the liquor quotas to permit unlimited entry for thirty to sixty days, in order to lower the prices of domestic liquors, which he regards as too high. Aside from the lifting of the liquor quotas for a period. President Roosevelt’s order provided further allowance for the domestic manufacture of spirits, which will add to the supply of whiskies at the rate of 44,000,000 gallons annually. The decision came, it is understood, as the result of finding that bootlegging still flourishes because of the high prices of legitimate liquors, with a resultant diminution of tax receipts. With seven weeks in which to prepare, foreign exporters could be in readiness to deliver to America unlimited quantities, and it is indicated that in the case of countries with moderate production, such as Australia, as much of the current wine supplies as they wish to export could ho laid down in America and kent for distribution in bonded warehouses, making them independent of future quotas for the remainder of the year at least. It is incidentally pointed out that the Administration’s plan for trading liquor quotas against quotas for American products has “ been disappointing.” Apple growers, however, have already protested at the relaxation of the quota system.