RECIPROCAL TRADE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVIII, Issue 18599, 29 December 1920, Page 7

RECIPROCAL TRADE.

CANADA AND AUSTRALIA By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. OTTAWA, December ‘27. The Ottawa, correspondent of the " Montreal Star”, stages that a reciprocal trade agreement between Canada aud Australia, ia under consideration. Developments are expected early in the New. Year. The Canadian Government some time ago made a proposal to Australia, but- nothing was done owing to the (instability of Australian political conditions. Later, when the Australian tariff was being revised, the subject was again broached, the Commonwealth replying that nothing could be done until the new fiscal policy had been ratified. Now that ratification has” been accomplished, the Canadian Trade and Commerce Department intends further to propose a system of preferential reciprocity between Canada and Australia-, such as already exists between Canada and New Zealand.