TARIFF BARRIERS
FRENCH BAN ON FRUIT. (United Press Aran.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) London, March 9. Fruit traders are not greatly perturbed at the French prohibition of imports, as the quantities shipped to France hitherto have been small, consisting mostly of the best qualities of New Zealand apples and some Australian and New Zealand pears. DUTY ON WOOL OPPOSED. Paris, March 9. Tho Central Woollen Committee is demanding the withdrawal of the Bill introduced in the Chamber of Deputies proposing an increase in the import duties on wool to subsidize home-grown. The committee shows that 90 per cent, of the raw wool used is imported. GERMAN SUPER TARIFF. Berlin, March 9. A now super tariff, under which Australia is included as a country having no commercial treaty with Germany, but which is not yet enforced, permits the following increases of duty per 2001 b weight: Wheat, from 5 to 30 marks; frozen meat, from 45 to 110 marks. Wool is ' not affected. The Minister of Commerce emphasized that the super tariff would be merely discretionary and would be used to meet zither discriminatory tariffs.
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Southland Times, Issue 21650, 11 March 1932, Page 7
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