BRITISH EXPORT TRADE

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10206, 17 February 1919, Page 6

BRITISH EXPORT TRADE

ADDITIONS TO THE FREE LIST

A cablegram- has been received + by HM- Trade Commissioner trom tho Board of Trade, London, emphasising the importance of stimulating British export trade at the present time, and stating that the following goods have been placed on the free list, and now require no export license: —Artists' material, athletic goods, bicycles, but not tyres, bicycle .accessories, zuttons I (except military, horn and vegetable | ivory), cigar and cigarette-holders,, china and earthenware, china clay, clocks, cutlery, drugs (various), fancy goods (of paper, ivory, leather, etc.), films, subject to censorship, flower seeds, fountain pens, furs (dressed,' dyed or manufactured), glassware, builders' hardware (of iron or steel), ink, jewellery (imitation or pearl), laces, | laundry machinery, ledgers, marble, mineral waters (unsweetened), medical instruments, office furniture, pictures and paintings, phonographs, photographic materials (not chemical), razors (safety and blades), silk ribbons, spectacles, sewing machines, wall-paper. Tho following are some of the principal commodities for which liconses are still required: s —Abrasives, agricultural machinery, cement, chemicals (various), coal and coke, oils, pipes (castiron), packing cases, railway material, resine, coaHar products, copper (wrought and unwrought, including wire and alloys), dyes, foodstuffs, food for live stock, glue, iron (angles, bars, billets and constructional material), motor spirit, metals (various), shipbuilding material, steel (angles, ingots, plates and similar raw material), textile machinery,. textile yarns, fibres and waste, tinplato, war material, wire, wiro rope, wood and timber. . Prohibition of exportation of raw materials does not extend to goods manufactured from such materials.