SHOCK TO AUSTRALIA
NEW ZEALAND’S IMPORT LICENSING SYSTEM FUTURE TRADE JEOPARDISED PA AUCKLAND, May 13. “I am afraid that the operating of the import licensing system as a form of tariff, amounting in some cases to prohibition, has come as something of a shock to us,’’ declared the recently appointed Australian Trade Commissioner in New Zealand, Mr R. Hazzard, in Auckland to-day./ 'Mr Hazzard, who was the guest speaker at the Associated Chambers of Commerce Conference, said his Australian manufacturing friends were somewhat insistent on the healthiness of freedom in competition, and they preferred operating under a tariff system of known character. A number of them had indicated an intention to withdraw from the New Zealand trade and some had done so. Kindred associations in Australia strongly endorsed the suggestion that sterling import licences should be made available for anywhere in the sterling area provided such licences were kept within the limits of the sterling funds available. - . Mr Hazzard said that business expansion in Australia was on an almost unbelievable scale.
Discussing imports from New Zealand, he said “we are anxious to take the maximum New Zealand can send us and welcome suggestions in this connection.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27080, 14 May 1949, Page 6
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