DEVELOPING EXPORT TRADE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 69, 18 February 1939, Page 11

DEVELOPING EXPORT TRADE

EMPIRE’S BARGAINING POWER

(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Feb. 16. Questioned in the House of Commons to-day as to whether, in view of the urgent necessity of removing some of the obstacles in the way of development of the export trade, he would consider the advisability of consulting the Dominion Governments as to the placing of the bargaining power of the Empire in a more unified basis, the President of the Board of Trade (Mr Oliver Stanley) said that it was the constant endeavour of the Government to remove such obstacles, and an example of valuable co-operation between members of tbe British Commonwealth for this object in trade negotiations with other countries was furnished by the recent concurrent negotiations with the United States on behalf of this country and Canada respectively, with which certain other Dominions and India were also concerned.

Though the scope for any joint bargaining was necessarily circumstnnciated, the possibilities of co-operation in future cases on the lines of the example mentioned would certainly be borne in mind, said Mr Stanley.