GERMAN DUMPING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17231, 10 April 1930, Page 12

GERMAN DUMPING

s j THREAT TO BRITAIN ’ I i! . ■ GOODS 50 PER CENT. CHEAPER i :i - ji LONDON, Eeh. 16. ■ Germany has started another intern ’ s ' v ‘‘ dumping campaign, and again British firms manufacturing lor the Buildt ing trades will he badly hit. i I lie new eampaign. indeed, threatens , to he nmie far reaching iii its effect even , than that o 1 dumping of German hallis, ! which, as indicated in a question raised , in tile House of Commons this week bv Mr. D. G. bonier', ilh-. the Conservative I M.P. lor Willesdon, has resulted In ! 10.089 British workmen being thrown , out- of employment. The new campaign which has been . launched is for the supply of all glazed , earthenware appliances for flu* bathroom . —basins and la value ios - in addition to , tiles lor fireplaces. i 1 NITER < H TTINt I ! All these art being dcliveied to agents m this country at prices abotit 50 per ten!, under those at which British I manufacturing agents can supply them ito wholesale builders and hardware | liierclunits. ! The agents of German firms are sending mil. canvasset's throughout, Great Britain urging merchants d! ers to take up these lines. | Many patriotic merchants, who have | for years dealt only with British firms, j are Being forced to deal in these GerI man-made goods, because speculative builders, anxious to save every penny they can on the cost of houses,, demand the chon nor fittings. An oflieial of one. firm of hardware and builders' merchants told a mess representative that the German dtunning in this direction is assuming really alarming proportions, and must eventually lead to widespread unemployment in the glazed earthenware works. GERMAN PRICES ' ‘‘German firms,” he sail!, “can supply to agents—delivered ill this countryglazed biitluonm basins (24in. bv 1 Bin.) at '9s each. “The cost if 1 buy from British manufacturers is £1 6s Bd. 1 “Another article can he sent into this 'country at. 11s. which I can only buy from British manttfactureis at liis 6d. These tire, of course, trade prices. 1 “Tiles for* fireplaces are being landed here from Germany in large quantities, 50 per cent cheaper than the Britishmade variety. Thousands are being used in new houses. t “We have never had dumping oil such a scale in our trade- not even before the | war. “We are forced to deal in those goods to n great extent owing to the demands of the speculative builder, wlm would j as tlm saying goes “skin a flint” to save . a farthing mi the cost, of any article used lui building a bouse.