GUARANTEES TO DANES

Grey River Argus, 12 August 1946, Page 8

GUARANTEES TO DANES

BRITISH MARKET TO MAXIMUM LONDON, Aug. 6. The Daily Express says that .the bacon under the Danish agreement will cost the British taxpayer an additional £2,700,000. The Times diplomatic correspondent says the prices for butter, bacon and eggs’ are firm minimum prices, and there is provision in the agreement for their revision upwards. An unwritten undertaking had been given .that Denmark shall gradually regain that share of the British market which she once had as conditions return to normal. The Danish farmer has an assurance that all he can produce will be absorbed, that prices may rise, and 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. Exports to Denmark 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 incresed as much as was hoped.