TRADE TREATY
AUSTRALIA AND BELGIUM MELBOURNE, Dec. fi. The Federal Government lids signed the. iirst foreign trade treaty under its new policy. Australia, which bought much glass from Belgium throughout many years, imposed high protective duties upon the commodity to encourage the local industry. Belgium threatened the exclusion of Australian products, including bnrley, of which Belgium takes a third of Australia's exports.' The Belgian Government, in return for permission to export t.o Australia n limited quantity of Belgian window glass each year, lias now agteed to remove all restrictions on the importation of Australian frozen meat into Belgium, and to withdraw the threatened embargo against the importation of Australian cereals.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18582, 17 December 1934, Page 10
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