PACT DENOUNCED

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 142, 1 June 1936, Page 7

PACT DENOUNCED

Belgium’s Reply to New Australian Tariff BAN ON IMPORTS? (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. I (Received 1, 9.30 a.iuj BRUSSELS, May 30. The Belgian Consul at Sydney !i::■< been instructed to notify the Ccsumvnwealth of the denunciation on Juno ’ of the provisional agreements fixing imports of cereals and frozen meat into Belgium. The decision has been taken as the result of Australia increasing duties on cotton goods, silk tissue and lubricants.

Unless negotiations with the Commonwealth are successful Australian products will be banned from Belgium after August 8. A MISUNDERSTANDING Belgium Would Gain on the Whole (Received 1, 10.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, June 1. The Minister in charge of Trade Treaties, Sir Henry Gullett, said that the Belgian Government’s action in terminating the trade agreement with Australia must be based on misunder standing, because Belgium would gain on the whole by the new duties. MR. DEBUCHI UPSET Thinks Mission Has been Ruined TOK1O, May 30. Mr K. Debuchi, who visited Australia and New’ Zealand last year on a good will tour, states he is too grieved to find words to comment on Australia ’» action in raising tariffs, which had ruined his mission and was contrary io Mr Lyons’s assurances. Sir John Latham, who earlier led as Australian mission to the East, cabled suggesting that Japan nwait experience of the uew- system before acting.