MEAT PROBLEMS

Evening Star, Issue 21992, 30 March 1935, Page 15

MEAT PROBLEMS

MR BALDWIN'S VIEWS ADVOCACY OF LEVY POLICY Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, March 28. Tlie ‘ Sun-Herald ’ service is informed authoritatively in connection with Mr Baldwin’s speech on Monday that what Mr Baldwin had in mind regarding meat was a levy with preference to the dominions instead of a quota, a levy and a tariff being both duties, though the proceeds of the former would be used to subsidise home industry. Mr Baldwin intended to convey that a levy system might advantageously be extended to imports such as bacon-, which is now regulated by a quota. More was read , into the speech than Mr Baldwin meant. The British meat policy, in accordance with the White Paper, continues to be a levy, which is closely allied but not identical ’with a tariff.

[An earlier message stated: Air Stanley Baldwin, addressing the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, said he believed that after experiments the Government’s tendency was to turn from quotas, which business men disliked, preferring a duty to a quota, which was liable to be shifted daily. “I am convinced that dominion and foreign opinion is turning in a similar direction,” he said. “We have had some experience of quotas being worked against ourselves. I am quite convinced that opinion in foreign countries and the dominions has turned in the direction of tariffs, and T think it is extremely likely that in British fiscal policy, whatever Government may be in power, the tendency will be to rely on a system of duties.”]