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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 9 April 1930, Page 5

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AMERICA GETS A TASTE NEW AUSTRALIAN TARIFF NEW YORK JOURNAL'S COMMENTS

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Uopyright)

NEW YORK, 7th April. The "New York Times" in a lend 3? entitled "Protectionist Australia," states that the new duties arc "Symptomatic of a state of mind which cannot but affect this country as well as Britain." After discussing the increase o! Australian tariffs in recent years tbo article continues.' "American manufacturers may now better understand the resentment of Canadians and South Americans against 1 lie increase'! :n the American tariff on various staples of those countries. It is no relation to the .scheme for fiee trade within the Empire. ,'i'he latest Act is chiefly interesting to Rritain, which enjoyed preference on most goods entering Australia, but opposition to preference is steadily growing. In fact the avowed purpose of the emergency measure is tc< cut Australian imports by about sixty million dollars in England itself. This pJan "'innot but damp the ardour of the advocates of Imperial free trade The .latest Tariff Act of Australia makes it more than plain that the dominions will have none of this sort of special privilege for England. They are thinking of their own needs first. However mistaken their policy may seem to be to the advocates of Imperial free trade, it cannot be ignored that the tendency in the dominions is clearly toward more and not less Protection."