TRADE IN LIBERATED AREAS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 27 September 1944, Page 6

TRADE IN LIBERATED AREAS

REPORT OF U.S. COMMITTEE New York,' Sept. 24. . The United States Chamber of Commerce is approaching the Government with a report from a special committee set up to consider trade in the liberated areas, says the “New York Times” Washington correspondent. The report says: “To protect and promote the foreign trade of the United States the committee urgently recommends that with a view to permitting a prompt survey and rehabilitation by American enterprises of investments, plans and organisations in Europe, Asia and Africa, the State Department and other appropriate Government agencies and the military authorities should encourage and aid interested United States companies and associations in sending accredited representatives to the liberated areas immediately those areas are out of the zone of military combat. “The committee also recommends that communications and travel to such areas should be restored as rapidly as possible, and all such facilities granted as promptly as possible.** Word has reached Washington, adds the correspondent, that a special United States mission, sponsored by the State Department, has arrived in Cairo* to study the restoration of trade after the war. The mission is understood to have resulted from strenuous protests lodged with the department a year ago by Mr James Landis, American economic representative in the Middle East, against the methods employed by the British to maintain the usual commercial channels in the Middle East during the war. * TO REGULATE RIVALRY While portents of intense AngloAmerican competition in foreign trade become increasingly evident, efforts are reported to be under way in AngloAmerican war production control 1 organisations to work out some methods by which the traders in each nation will set out with an, equal start when commerce can be resumed. One proposal is that the Combined Production Resources Board should continue after the conclusion of the war in Europe as an agency, to referee or make rules for the resumption of trade. The principal problem arises from the fact that the country which does the largest amount of reconversion at the end of the European phase will probably have an advantage.