TRADE WITH FRENCH

New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 25023, 13 October 1944, Page 5

TRADE WITH FRENCH

INTERESTS OF BRITAIN OFFICIALS NOW IN PARIS (Eecd. 6.30 p.m.) LONDON. Oct. 12 Britain's first trade ambassadors have arrived in Paris, says the Daily Express. They are Mr Ronald Fraser and Mr Walter Godfrey, the newly-ap-pointed commercial counsellor and commercial secretary respectively of the British Embassy. Although their first concern will be to assist the work of feeding and rehabilitating Parisians this winter, they will later be fully dccupied in assisting and advising British manufacturers hi all matters concerning their trade with the French. Mr Fraser and Mr Godfrey, will negotiate agreements, advise on the appointment of suitable agents, and encourage French buyers' interest _ m Britain. Theirs is the task of making the wheels of commerce between the two countries run smoothly. AIRPORT FACILITIES procedure at shannon (Eecd. 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 12 The Shannon airport will be the first freo airport in the world. The Eire Government is introducing legislation to givo effect to this as soon as wartime restrictions on traffic can be relaxed, savs a Dublin announcement. This means that through passengers and their baggage and merchandise will travel into and out of the airport without customs and immigration inspection. Only in the case of traffic having its destination in Eire will the customs procedure be enforced. buying in SPAIN AMERICAN CESSATION (Reed. 8.45 p.m.) NEW YORK,. Oct. 12 The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald-Tribune says a major economic prop was pulled from under the Franco Government with the decision of the United States Commercial Corporation to close its Madrid office after the liquidation of the Allies' preclusive purchasing programme, which brought Spain 160,000.000 dollars over two and a-half years. The decision to,cease operations and virtually all American trade activities in Spain is dictated _ solely by the fact that preclusive buvitu r is no. longer necessary because the Germans do not now hava-fujoess to Spanish .produots*