TARIFF COMMISSION

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 November 1933, Page 7

TARIFF COMMISSION

RUSSIAN GOODS ADVOCATE.

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

WELLINGTON, November 7. At the Tariff Commission sitting, the proposed imposition of the duty of twenty-five per cent, on foreign glucose was opposed by Levin and Co., agents for Corn Products Refining Co., New York. Glucose, at present, is admitted free, except for primage dutj. Among a variety of requests made by different parties to the Tariff Commission, to-day. was a submision by L. J. Duflou, of Duflou Ltd., Wellington, that the tariff schedule should be airanged so as to give Russian manufacturers, the opportunity of exporting to New Zealand on a fair and competitive basis. A reduction of foreign duties was sought in a number of cases and in others, Mr Duflou asked that no alteration be made. The application covered chemical, tobacco, salmon and other tinned fish, including sturgeon. Chinaware, an dglassware, salt, rubber, footweai, leatheis, preserved fruit, such as ..cherries, greengages and strawberries, carpets and electric light bulbs. In connection with China and glassware, Mr Duflou submitted that if it were really necessary to put the brake on Japanese imports, other measures should be devised without penalising other foreign countries. He did not say that Japanese foods should be stopped, but that goods of equal quality should be given an equal chance of being sold, irrespective of where they came from.