LICENSING OF IMPORTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19023, 25 May 1936, Page 2

LICENSING OF IMPORTS

NEW AUSTRALIAN PLAN [.OSS TO AMERICA (Elec. Tal. Copyright—United Press Asaa.) SYDNEY. May 24. Apart from wool growers, who fear that, Japan may he irritated and may even seek reprisals, the announcement of Australia's new tariff proposals and the licensing of imports caused general satisfaction, The. motor trade in the is reported to have received its biggest gift for many years, while far-reaching : readjustments of trade with exporting countries are expected to begin almost immediately. : A substantial increase in employment in most of the protected industries is forecast. The importations of: Cnited States and Canadian chassis are to he restricted to 50,000 per year. There- will be no restrictions on Japanese rayon, on which the rates of duty are slightly increased, hut large Australian purchases are likely to be diverted to Japan at tlie expense of the United States. The trade in fashion goods .from America/except as samples, will, it is expected, be diverted to France, which is a good customer of the country. The United States will lose almost its entire Australian trade in refrigeration plant, toilet preparations, machinery, boots, shoes, paper and other manufactured products. TOKIO OPINIONS TRADE WAR OPENING SOUTH AFRICAN QUEST TOKIO, May 23. Tho press features Canberra's so-called i ''anti-Japanese measure." headlining it as "Tho Opening Shot in the Trade War." Comments are made on the wreck of the treaty negotiations. Tho press also reports that Mr. Brennan, South African Trade Commissioner, is touring Western Japan, actively canvassing the Osaka business houses and the Nagoya woollen mills for wool and other South African goods.