U.S.A. TARIFF

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 13 April 1922, Page 5

U.S.A. TARIFF

DISCUSSED BY MR MASSBY.

(By Telegraph—Special to the Star.) WELLINGTON, April 12. Particulars of the new American tariff were discussed by the Prime Minister with a reporter to-day. Mr Massey remarked that the duty of about 53 cents on scoured wool represented, roughly, half that on greasy wool. It would be very heavy, but he did not think it possible for America to do without Australian and New Zealand wool. That meant that the duty would have to be paid by the consumer in the long run. The duty on mutton and lamb was a heavy handicap on the trade, but up to the present very little New Zealand meat had been taken by the United States. There were some large cargoes sent over there some time ago, and a proportion of that meat fotfnd its way to London eventually. The United States did not make much demand for New Zealand mutton, and it would be impossible to send lamb to one country and mutton to another. The two must be marketed together.