BIDS FOR TRADE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11948, 19 May 1933, Page 5

BIDS FOR TRADE

BRITAIN’S TREATIES WITH SCANDINAVIA. FISH AND DAIRY PRODUCE FOR COAL. f-Rrit-sli Official . RUGBY, May 17. Under the new trade agtetraent- between Britain and Nor-v. av Y - - eacn country undertakes that the interna! duties levied in each country on.goads which are the produce or manufai ture of the other will not bo greater than those levied on native; good);. In tho event of a quantitive regulation being applied to imports of fish into the United Kingdom, • the agreement fixes the minimum quan. titles of white fish and herrings allowed to be imported from Norway, and if imports of bacon, horn, and certain dairy produce ar e similarly regulated, the. imports from Norway arc to be unchanged. Arrangements have been made whereby nob less than .70 per cent, of Norway’s coal imports will bo obtained from Britain, whose proportion of Norway's coke imports pow 7.5 per cent., will be maintained The exchange of notes records the understanding that subject to certain exceptions, neither country will impose quantitative restrictions on imports such as would nullify the effect of tile tariff concessions granted in the agreement. The agreement with Sweden is in similar form. In the event of the imposition of a quantitative restriction on imports of agricultural produce and fish. Swedish butter imports are not to be reduced below 185,000ewt a year, and fish imports not below -io.fjOOcwt. Forty-seven per cent, of all Swedish coal imports will be of United Kingdom origin.

CANADA AND FRANCE. DOMINION SEEKS REMOVAL OF SURTAX. (U PA. by F.tec Tel CV-uv right) OTTAWA, May 17. Canada and Franc-: have opened negotiations for the removal of the surtax against Canadian goods entering the French republic. Tlie surtax now is 11 per cent., and' is additional to tariffs because of the depreciated Canadian currency