U.S.A. WOOL TARIFFS
EFFECT ON CLOTHING PRICE (Australian Press Association.) (By Cable —Press Assn. —Copyright.) WASHINGTON, February 8. The representative of the Clothing Manufacturers’ Research Board appearing before the Tariff. Commission, saicl that the tariff duties on wool and woollens are “pyramided,” and add four dollars to the price of the average man’s suit. He said the price of clothing was approximately twice the average price charged before the war. The tariff was the second of the factors responsible for this; the increased labour cost being the first. He'added: —“The prices account for much of the deplorable conditions in the woollen manufacturing industry, and chieflly for the drop in wool consumption from 681 million pounds in 1922 to 538 million pounds in 1928.” He asked that wool duties be left as they are. The representative of the National Grange, a leading farm organisation, asked that the wool duties be based on 38 cents per pound for scoured clothing wool of good grade.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 February 1929, Page 5
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