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Northern Advocate, 19 August 1933, Page 9

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mm » _ JAPANESE CHRISTMAS TOYS SWAMPING THE MARKET.

AUSTRALIAN MANUFACTURERS ALARMED.

GOVERNMENT ACTION PROMISED,

(United Press Association —By. Electric . Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received 9 a.m.) iSYDNEY, August 18. ' Australian manufacturers are apprehensive about the Christmas toy trade, as they realise they have no chance of competing with Japanese landed prices. .•■',.'.':•.■.'■

The president of the Chamber of . Manufacturers, Mr Gordon Dennis, stated today that if Japan was successful .in the proposed drive to flood Australia with toys, Australian workmen in the toy industry will have a very iean Christmas. The Minister of Customs, Mr P. W. Whote, stated in Canberra that the Cqmxhonwealth Government is keeping a close watch oh "the threatened flood b£; Japanese .toys, and if there is evidence to establish a prima facie case of dumping, or threatened dumping, it will;be dealt with quickly. An increase of 50 per cent in the value of/Australia's importations from Japan is shown by, a comparison of the figures for the financial year just endfid with those for 1931-32. The balance of trade between the Commonwealth and Japan, however, is still £5,000,000 in Australia's favour. Most'of; the goods imported from Japan are. competitive with the British importations.

-JAPAN RETALIATES.

AUSTRALIAN WOOL BOYCOTT. (Received 1 p.m.) LONDON", August 18. ■A" message from Tokio states that, in consequence of the British Empire's anti-Japanese trading-movements, Japanese industrialists are conferring with the. Government requesting shipping subsidies to facilitate importation of South American wool in order to replace Australian.