POST-WAR TRADE

Franklin Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 61, 2 June 1943, Page 4

POST-WAR TRADE

ABOLITION OF TARIFFS ; NEW ZEALAND INDUSTRIES j Interesting observations on post- : war reconstruction were made by the New Zealand Minister to Washington ! (Mr Nash) in the course of an ad- ; dress to the Wellington branch of the i Royal Society of New Zealand. Discussing Article 7 of the Atlantic Charter, Mr Nash said that its provision regarding trade discrimination might mean that after the war there would be abolition of trade tariffs between Britain and Now Zealand, but he reminded his listeners that in that case the United States would have to remove hers. Replying to a question as to what would become of New Zealand’s recently developed industries after the j war, Mr Nash said he could not see > the country developed on the lines of absolute free trade. If we got the system he had outlined in his address some types of goods would be made and others abandoned. “I do not suggest.” Mr Nash said, “we should pro- , duce things which would cost three

times as much as we could get them fo” from overseas.”