DUMPING RUSH

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17609, 27 October 1931, Page 9

DUMPING RUSH

FOREIGN GOODS FLOODING BRITAIN . ? British manufacturers arc bbcoirirng seriously concerned about the groat dumping rush. i , .'• • • . Anticipating tariffs,.. their .'foreign rivals arc Hooding the ports and warehouses with good-s worth, millions of pounds. ■ ‘ The secretary of the National Union of Manufacturers said to a Daily j Express representative:— “The situation is similar to that which arose when British manufacturers were applying for. duties to.be imposed under the Safeguarding of Industries Act, Foreigners meanwhile exerted every effort to increase their exports to this country. “In some cases the excessive dumping brought a two years’ supply of goods so that our manufacturers for a. long time were unable to benefit from the protection given. “We feel that this is rocurring today. . . ft,- .

Every class of manufactured 1 goods and produce is coming in on the waves of the massed dumping attack. Dockers and bargemen are working late at night and often into the morning cleaving up the cargoes. Already the accommodation at the wharves is proving inadequate for the material which has to be handled . 1 ! : ! Even “fresh milk’’ ie being diimpqd into England now—in the„ form of frozen blocks, intended for sale subsequently under that name. So extensive have the consignments of “luxury’’ goods become that Continental shipping companies have been compelled to transfer part), of their business to the train-ferry sendee*.