AUSTRALIA TO RECAST HER TRADE POLICY

Northern Advocate, 11 December 1937, Page 7

AUSTRALIA TO RECAST HER TRADE POLICY

United Press Association.—By Flectrlt Telegraph. — Copyright.] (Received 1 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day.

The Sydney “Morning Herald’s” Canberra correspondent says Australia’s trade relations will be completely recast within the next few months. The

principles that have stood since the Ottawa Agreement was signed will be substantially modified, and some may even be abandoned.

Concessions that Australia enjoys may have to be abandoned so that others may be obtained, and concessions which she now grants may have to be withdrawn and others submitted.

The crux of the problem is the review of the Ottawa Agreement end the completion of a trade agreement with the United States, but bargaining will extend to other parts of the Empire and foreign countries.

Announcements that the trade diversion policy will be abandoned and that Mr T. W. White, Minister of Trade and Customs, will leave for New Zealand today, are a prelude to an important period of negotiation ahead.

Important Mission

The importance attached to Mr White’s mission is indicated by the fact that he will be accompanied by Mr J. Fletcher, one of the senior officers of the Customs Department, and Mr E. McCarthy, of the Commerce Department. . . .

Mr Latham Withal, secretary of the Associated Chambers of Manufactures, will also go to New Zealand to examine the trade position. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Melbourne correspondent says that Mr White, before leaving for Sydney to catch the Awatea, admitted that pressure from the Dominion Government had dictated his hurried visit.