Vide Range of Goods Affected

Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 November 1931, Page 3

Vide Range of Goods Affected

BY BRITISH ANTIDUMPING TAX. FIRST ORDER”IMPOSES 50 PER CENT. DUTY Received Sunday, 10.30 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 22. The first order under the ..Imports (Anti-Dumping) Bill issued by the Board of Trade operates from the 25th. It imposes a duty of 50 per cent, of the value on the articles scheduled, including domestic pottery, glassware, cutlery, tools, electrical vacuum cleaners, wireless sets and parts of typewriters, silk or artificial silk or artificial silk stockings, linen clothing, bicycle tyres, wool manufactures, worsteds, pile fabrics, flannels, blankets, felt, carpets, rugs, packing or wrapping paper. Bill Receives Royal Assent PROTECTION FOR SIX MONTHS (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Nov. 20. One of the amendments debated during the Bill to check abnormal importations was a proposal that ail goods ordered from abroad before November 15 be exempt from the duty. The amendment was rejected. Major L. Hore-Belisha said that me effect would be to extend to foreign exporters a consideration which their Governments did not show when imposing tariffs, and would exempt much excessive imports already in bond or still to come. If British importers failed to take account of a possible tariff in contracts they had been badly advised. In any case, their interests could not be preferred to the interests of those whom dumping would throw out of employment. The Bill passed ail stages in the House of Lords without division and received the Royal Assent. Lord Hails ham, speaking for the Government, said that it did not represent a permanent policy. It was a temporary measure of six months' duration to deal with a pressing emergency. Before its term expired the Government would bring forward proposals relating to agriculture and industry. Attention was called at question time in the House of Commons to the recent. French decree imposing additional discriminating duties on imports from various countries, including Britain and the Dominions ~ On behalf of the President of the Board of Trade, who was asked whether retaliatory measures were contemplated it was stated that the whole question of appropriate action to be taken in the matter was engaging the serious consideration of his Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom. In reply to another question on this subject as to whether French action was in conformity with the most-fav-oured-nation treaty with France, it was stated that, although United Kingdom goods had received most-favoured-nation treatment in France in the matter of duties under French law for some 50 years, there was no treaty, in force to accord such treatment to the, goods of the other. kfi.f .- U.s. Tariff Wall May Go Higher TO MEET BRITISH MENACE Received Sunday, 9.30 p.m. WASHINGTON, No Vi 20. The immediate imposition countervailing duties to make those United States charges on importations from Great Britain equal to the duties charged on United States products by Britain will be ordered by the Government under the tariff laws. The countervailing duties will go into effect automatically whenever United States duties on certain articles are less than charged by a "ireign government on the same article. The Treasury and the Department of Commerce expert? are preparing, a list of articles on which the duties. will be increased. ■ Assistant-Secretary of .the .Treasury, Mr. Lowman, disclosed the plan to-day. He expect" the increases will be in force by the time the British duties go into effect. A Washington message states that the United States moved to-day to levy countervailing duties to meet the new British tariffs, but officials quickly found that few if any articles would be eligible for the higher rates. Under the countervailing provisions .of the United States tariff the Government is permitted to raise the rates on a small number of articles to a figure equal to that of foreign countries on similar American exports. A study has shown that the retaliatory provisions affect only automobiles, trucks, bicycles, coal, coke, paper board, wallboard, pulpboard, leatherboard and gun powder. None of these items is noted in the Britis.i schedules published here, so it is likely the countervailing clauses cannot be invoked. Where Canada Scores Received Sunday, 9.50 p.m. OTTAWA, Nov. 21. It is believed Canada is in a position to take considerabU advantage from the first duty of 50 per cent, preference on British anti-dumping announced in London yesterday, notably in paper products. France Unresponsive Received Sunday, 9.50 p.m. ; PARIS* Nov. 21. The French Government is at present