EXPORTS TO CANADA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19125, 17 September 1925, Page 10

EXPORTS TO CANADA.

PROPOSED TARIFF REBATES. AUSTRALIA'S ADVANTAGE. NEW ZEALAND ACTION URGED. [by telegraph.—press association.] WELLINGTON, Wednesday. A committee of the Chamber of Commerce discussed the reciprocal trade agreement between Canada and Australia, which is to become effective by proclamation on a dato to be agreed upon by both countries. Under the agreement, Australia is to grant to Canada the benefit of her British preferential tariff on some lines and the benefit of her intermediate tariff on other lines. • Australia's preferential tariff applies to gifods that are the produce or manufacture of the United Kingdom, and Canadian goods have had to pay duties under the general tariff. The concessions now pffered by Australia to Canada affect such articles as fish, fcd&ric, gloves, printing machines, typewriters, adding machines, cash registers, paper, iron and steel tubes, rubber boots and shoes and vehicle parts. In return for these concessions Canada offers concessions in her tariff to Australia upon many lines that are of direct interest to the primary producers of New Zealand. New Zealand at present enjoys British preferential rates with Canada, but some of the new rates that will be applicable to Australian exporters are against exporters from New Zealand. The committee has submitted for consideration the following resolution for transmission to the Government: "That the exporters of this Dominion view with cohcern the preference which the reciprocal trade agreement between Australia and Canada, passed by the Canadian House of Commons on June 23, gives to Australian exports over New Zealand products, as instanced in tho following: Butter per lb., present Canadian tariff on imports from New Zealand, 3 cents; agreed Canadian tariff on imports from Australia, 1 cent. Cheese per lb., 2 cents-—free; apples, dried or evaporated, 17£ per cent. —10 per cent.; meat, fresh, per lb., 2 cents—j-cent.; meat, canned, 17£ per cent.-- 15 per cent.; tallow, 15 per cent.—lo per cent.; lard, per lb., li cents—free; honey, per lb, 2 cents—l cent. This chamber, therefore, requests the Government to take immediate steps to obtain for New Zealand the same tariff concessions especially as New Zealand has given to Canada preferential treatment on all imoorts from that country for many years/' The chamber carried the resolution.