EXPORT OF MEAT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18999, 23 October 1923, Page 10

EXPORT OF MEAT

EFFECT OF IMPERIAL PREFERENCE. SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRIES ALARMED. Pr«*» Aiaoelatioa—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, October 21. The Daily Telegraphfs Geneva correspondent states that at the Customs Conference the delegates from Brazil and Uruguay asked Great Britain for an explicit statement that she did not intend to discriminate in favour of the dominions to the prejudice of the contracting parties in connection with Article 5 of the Convention. Sir H. Llewellyn Smith, for Great Britain. replied that the Imperial fiscal policy was outside the sphere of the conference. After an assurance was given that there would he no nniust diserimination. the demand was withdrawn. The Uruguayan delegate was mostly concerned about the export of meat, in which Australia mieht become a serious competitor if Mr Bruce’s plan is adopted by the Imperial Conference.—A. and N.Z. Cable. NEW CLASSIFICATION LAW. DRASTIC ACTION BY ARGENTINE PACKERS. BUENOS AIRES. October 20. The British and American packers have informed the Government that they will cense purchasing Argentine beef, and the expectation is that all shipments to Europe will rouse within a month. This action has been taken as a result of the passage of a law fixing the minimum price at 27 centavos for chilled beef cattle. 24 centavos for foreign beef, and 19 centavos for the Continental type. The packers do not object to the nrice but to the classification since they have been accustomed to purenase whole herds The law would so seriously derange their methods of procedure that it would be more economical to cease operations. The Government has informed the packers that it regretted the law. hut it would be enforced.—A. and N.Z. Cable.