The Hawera Star. FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1935. MEAT EXPORTS.

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 8 March 1935, Page 6

The Hawera Star.

FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1935. MEAT EXPORTS.

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The Imperial Government’s "White Paper on meat imports does not say anything which the industry does not already know, but it makes the situation easier to grasp. In effect, Britain informs the Dominions that she will not press for quotas, but will throw upon the Dominions the responsibility for regulating supplies sent to the Home market. She also makes it clear that she will not countenance any arrangement which threatens the existence of the United Kingdom’s livestock industry. The protective steps she proposes taking, with the consent of the Dominions, is the imposition of a levy on Dominion imports into the Home market. All imports are to hear the levy, hut the Dominions are to have a preference over the foreigner. Thus the gate is opened to the foreigner who cares to absorb the extra burden imposed by the levy. The market is heavily loaded against the foreign exporter, but the Dominions have had past experience of certain foreign countries’ readiness to unload supplies on to the English market at any price and they cannot view with equanimity this new deal. Great Britain has also made it clear that failure on the part of the Dominions to accept the levy proposal will force her to impose quotas. So now the Dominions

kri'oW~where "’they* are. WKether they will be any happier as a result of their triumph in holdingup Britain’s move towards quotas remains to be seen. It appears that the greatest achievement of the Dominions so far has been to change the place ; of decision froni London to their own headquarters. Can the meat exporting Dominions get together, or find some way of working in harmony, or are they going to make the pace for each other in the matter of getting the maximum of supplies on to the London market? It is to be hoped, for the good of all concerned, that the meat exporting countries will not have to suffer market depression and unpayable prices before agreeing that market regulation at the' exporters’ end calls for a measure of mutual consideration.