NO MORE TRADE PACTS
BRITAIN AWAITS WORLD POLICY (Rec. 11.4.0 a.m.). LONDON, Sept. 28
Britain has decided to make no more trade agreements with individual countries until the United Nations have decided the future world trade policy, says the Daily Express. Thus the termination by Argentina of the nine-year-old agreement with Britain becoming effective in February will not be followed immediately by negotiations for a new pact. The Board of Trade has announced that Britain is unlikely to suffer through the ending of the agreement because already this year she has arranged to purchase all Argentina's surplus meat for the next four years. No special reason is given for Argentina's action except the many changes in trading conditions since 1936.
A serious Argentine drought and a general meat shortage resulted in Britain's imports of beef and veal falling by 88,000 tons for the first six months of 1945 compared with the corresponding period of last year. Mutton and lamb imports from New Zealand, however, rose-from 167,000 to 199,000 tons.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 258, 29 September 1945, Page 5
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