WOMEN’S GARMENTS
DUMPED IN NEW ZEALAND JOBBING LOTS FROM OVERSEAS (Per Press Association). Wellington, Aug. 22. During a discussion bv the Manufacturers’ Federation of- a proposal to amend the Customs Act it was .stated that 75 per cent, of women’s garments which came into New Zealand were dumped, being bought at a jobbing- price and sold at prices with which New Zealand manufacturers could not ppssib’j compete. The debate arose, on a Wellington remit that the . Government be Acquested to so amend the C ustoms Act that it be obligatory on the. part of every importer of apparel to indicate in each invoice the ordinary or original selling- price- of the goods. Further, that the Government bo requested that a duty be levied on the purchase price plus a dumping duty of two-thirds of the difference between the price actually charged and the original price indicated. It was decieded to refer the remit back to the Wellington Association {or revision.
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Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2504, 24 August 1931, Page 8
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