GRIPPLED GLASS TRADE.
AMERICAN CONSUL ADVISES IMPORT DUTIES. Britain's crippled glara industry forms the subject of a report to the Department of Commerce at Washington by Mr Albert Halstead, United fetates Consul at Birmingham. . "Tlie British export trade," he says, "is greatly restricted by foreign tariffs, particularly m the United States. / "For the past twenty years employment m the various branches of the glass industry is reported to have declined. The trade unions are large, widespread, and powerful m the glass industry, "i"As a remedial measure to save the declining industry it is suggested that import duties be imposed, ranging from 10 per cent. t<? a series of duties equivalent to those m foreign tariffs. ' • / . "Such import duties, it is thought, would cause .the restarting of those extensive factories tliat have been closed during the last five yetxrs, and the effect would be increased sales, greater security to the home trade, greater continuity, and the retention of capital m tihe United Kingdom."-- ."'■ :'• - ; . ■■ ■ '
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11116, 2 November 1907, Page 1 (Supplement)
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162GRIPPLED GLASS TRADE. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11116, 2 November 1907, Page 1 (Supplement)
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