DANISH EXPORTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 6 August 1946, Page 8

DANISH EXPORTS

EFFECT OP NEW BRITISH AGREEMENT

LONDON, August 5.

Commenting on the effects of the new British and Danish food agreement, The Times diplomatic correspondent says unwritten undertakings had been given that Denmark shall gradually regain that share of the British market which she once had as conditions return to normal. Prices for butter, bacon, and eggs are firm minimum prices, and there is provision in the agreement for their revision upwards. “The Danish farmer' has therefore an assurance that all he can produce will be absorbed by an old customer, that prices may rise, that the Baltic States which were once his competitors are unlikely'—on present prospects—to offer their food to a .future prosperous and hungry British public,” adds the correspondent. “It is understood in Denmark that trade between the two countries must not be onesided. Exports from Britain have gone up by leaps and bounds in textiles, chemicals, dyes, iron and steel products, motor-cars and other consumption goods. But food imports have not increased as much as was hoped.” The Daily Express says that the bacon under the Danish agreement will cost the British taxpayer an additional £2,700,000. '