DUTIES ON MEAT

Grey River Argus, 30 April 1932, Page 5

DUTIES ON MEAT

BRITISH PROPOSAL To Get £18,500,000 (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn). LONDON, April 28. A scheme for a British tariff on meat has been issued on behalf of the National Farmers, National Union, Associated Chambers of Commerce, Graziers Federal Council of Australia, New South Wales Primary Producers' Board, New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board, New Zealand and Australian Agents’ Association, also the Canadian Producers' Association. leading importers and wholesalers at Smithfield and the Provinces . The scheme pro poses an Ennpire tariff of half-penny a pound on beef, mutton, lamb, pork, veal, bacon, hams; and also full foreign tariff on beef, mutton, pork, veal, bacon, hams of one and a-half, and lamo two pence. The preferential foreign tariff on beef, mutton, pork, veal, bacon, hams, three farthings, lamb a

penny. It is estimated that the fuU variff will yield in revenue to the British Treasury £18,500,000 per year, but a revenue of £8.500,000 if all foreign countries took advantage of the pre fcrential tariff. The scheme includes regulations to prevent consumers being injured by excessive rises in price. It is claimed that the scheme would give the British farmer a steady market, and give Eimpirc producers priority. Tho Government would have power to restrict imports to meet the seasonal requirements of the British market. The manifesto ends: “Thp fact that British capital is invested. *.’< Argentina and other foreign countries does not justify the continuance of tne existing one-sided trading. The scheme will endow Britain with a unique . bargaining weapon. ’ ’